Martin Landau Quotes

I was very thin, exceedingly thin. If you look at 'North By Northwest,' you'll get a clue.

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• Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Question
  • Effect
  • Often

• If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Kind
  • Start

• My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Mom

• I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Sports
  • Professional
  • Red

• Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • God
  • Man
  • Light

• One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Done
  • Things
  • Tell

• I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Drugs
  • Take Drugs

• I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Reading
  • Pleasure
  • Inspires

• A sexy shoe is one that men like.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Men
  • Sexy
  • Shoe

• Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Past

• I think it's very helpful having Twitter and all that. I mainly talk about work on Twitter. I keep my personal life separate from my work life, but I think it helps because everybody's on the Internet now - everybody has Facebook; everybody has Twitter.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • Life
  • Work
  • Think

• I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

  

  Randall Terry
  • People
  • Believe
  • Change

• There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Family
  • Woman
  • Same

• I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• I've definitely accepted the fact that I'm not normal.

  

  Becky G
  • Fact
  • Normal
  • Definitely

• Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending. I want Bush to decide.

  

  Zell Miller
  • America
  • Paris

• Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Power

• The town horse, used to gaudy trappings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, now and again, there comes upon him a sudden desire to plough.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Work
  • Country
  • Desire

• I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child, although it would be stupid for me to box.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Passion
  • Stupid
  • Soccer

• Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

  

  Klas Pontus Arnoldson
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• I think animation is a very truthful way to express your thoughts, because the process is very direct. That's what I've always liked about animation, particularly abstract animation. You go from the idea to execution, straight from your brain. It's like when you hear someone playing an instrument, and you feel the direct connection between the instrument and his brain, because the instrument becomes an extension of his arms and fingers. It's like a scanner of the brain and thought process that you can watch, or hear.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Brain
  • Direct
  • Abstract

• I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Training
  • Actor
  • Theater

• I didn’t really expect to make any money. If I could make enough to cover the rent and buy some food that would be fine. As it turns out, it turned out to be quite valuable in the end.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Money
  • Food

• I was very thin, exceedingly thin. If you look at 'North By Northwest,' you'll get a clue.

  

  Martin Landau