Martin Landau Quotes
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.
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In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.
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What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
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The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.
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The FBI and our entire government has become a bureaucracy. Sick, tired, and old as far as technology is concerned. This has to change.
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I'm usually cast by people who are oddly goofy.
