Martin Landau Quotes
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.
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I think probably the majority of political actions don't go the way people are going to go. Just because there were unexpected consequences and maybe not the resolution people would have liked to have been seen doesn't mean it was less valid of an action.
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Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.
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I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.
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The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
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With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting into tears for no reason.
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It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone...
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Human nature as we know it is, nevertheless, malleable and manageable. It may be radically modified as a result of advances in bio-, molecular, nano- and computational technologies. It will therefore be essential to establish a clear code of ethics regulating the use of these technologies sooner rather than later.
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As a young actor, I was working much more readily and being offered more things.
