Martin Landau Quotes
Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
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I love parties. I love a good time.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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As long as I look good, I'm very happy - and as long as I look consistently me.
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The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.
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Ah, afflicted one, your disabilities were meant to unite with God's enablings, your weakness to mate His power. God's grace is at hand -sufficent-- and at its best when human weakness is most profound. Appropriate it and learn that those who wait on God are stronger in their weakness than the sons of men in their stoutest health and vigor.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?
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Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.
