Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
One of my earlier films is 'Quigley Down Under.' That was early on in my career, and that was horsey.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I brought several national projects to Katihar.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.
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The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first episode of globalization - was made possible, in large part, by military might rather than market forces.
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I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.
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I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.
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I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.
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The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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One of my earlier films is 'Quigley Down Under.' That was early on in my career, and that was horsey.
