Martin Landau Quotes
The average scene in a film, you have to shoot it 15, 20 times. That means you got to laugh or cry 15, 20 times.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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I wasn't born to be champion - I fought to be champion.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
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Music was sort of my thing at first.
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'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'
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I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
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I enjoy the burger joint the same way I enjoy fancy meals.
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Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.
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I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing - and that thing was story.
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Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.
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Most people, when they think of an insult, they keep it to themselves. But you wouldn't believe the things people say on my Twitter feed, and I'm a nice guy. Imagine if I was a jerk.
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With food, you're the artist; you put the colour in it, you present it to the table and it has the ability to knock out the senses. It can look fabulous, be beautifully presented and smell great and taste good as well.
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I turned down dates because I dreaded sitting in front of a plateful of food.
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The average scene in a film, you have to shoot it 15, 20 times. That means you got to laugh or cry 15, 20 times.
