Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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I love the London vibe. I get so much love from London that I never had from other places. It's crazy. The people there understand music so much more.
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Whatever obstacles you face, remember you can get through anything if you want to badly enough.
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I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.
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The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.
