Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother, drama teacher twisted me into doing this TV thing that I thought my mates were doing, too.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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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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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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I think turning 30 - and same with turning 21, 25, or turning 18 - those are moments in life where something new is expected of you, or you expect something new from yourself.
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I'll never forget the first time I heard Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Partita in E Major' for violin. It was in a late-1980s television commercial, of all things. As a young violinist at the time, it enchanted me - it was so pure, precise, and unadorned.
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Look, I'm not asking you to like me, I'm not asking you to put yourself in a position where I can touch your goodies, I'm just asking you to be fair.
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Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.
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I've always wanted to be an action figure.
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The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother, drama teacher twisted me into doing this TV thing that I thought my mates were doing, too.
