Martin Landau Quotes
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.
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Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write – I find it gets in the way.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.
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Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
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I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.
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All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.
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Ch. 9 (pp. 298-9)
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If there is a true secret to the universe, it is this...these first few seconds of warmth and entry and complete acceptance by one’s beloved.
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Emily pounded on the door, assuming it would do no good, but finding the act of pounding very satisfying indeed.
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We often hear that mothers do the caring; fathers just do the playing. This is a false dichotomy - even a dangerous one - because fathers’ particular style of play involves both a conscious focus on teaching and, as the research is now showing, is instructive to children even when it is not consciously designed to be so.
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I myself am part of the youth movement. However, after a long discussion, it appears that many of the youth demands and needs, like access to education, jobs, and equitable growth, have been addressed under different goals and targets and youth enjoy the benefits of everything else in the report.
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When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive.
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I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.
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Having a literary agent makes a huge difference in submitting work. My agent has access and tremendous passion.
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With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.
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I've worked with a lot of wooden actors in my day, but Pinocchio is the best.
