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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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 started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere.
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An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.
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Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
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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.
