Martin Landau Quotes
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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I don't see the Hurricanes relocating, period. I think the Triangle is a terrific market.
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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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I think that educators are in sales. Essentially, what you are doing is making an exchange with your class. You're saying, 'Give me your attention. In exchange, I'll give you something else.' The cash register is not ringing. It's not denominated in dollars or cents or euros, but it is a form of sales in a way. It is an exchange.
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I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
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I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.
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I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.
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I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.
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I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.
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When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
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City Year resonated with me because when I grew up, we were poor - and an education is a way out of poverty. It's a way out of the current situation that can seem isolating and hopeless for some kids.
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There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.
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People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.
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The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.
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The soul has many motions, body one.
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I can take scripts directly to actors. Agents don't like to hear that.
