Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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I will not have Botox. You know why? Because I eat! I eat the fat, I eat the vegetable, I eat everything. If you exercise and you don't eat enough, it takes its toll on the skin.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
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I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.
