Ben Mendelsohn Quotes
In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
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I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
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Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
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I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.
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I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?
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Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about twelve years old. That wasn't the first science fiction I had ever read, but it's something that stands out in my memory as having had a big impact on me.
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I cannot live anywhere else except India.
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On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas.
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Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.
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On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.
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I feel like a feminist is gender equality.
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I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.
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I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.
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There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.
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In The Greens Are Gone, I play a character that's bipolar, so that was a big step and quite a challenge.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying.
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Death does determine life.
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In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.
