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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The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green's 'The Fault in Our Stars,' recently published by Penguin, was voted Time Magazine's book of the year in 2012 ahead of Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith.
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'Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.'
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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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My mom and I are very close.
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In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, 'I'll think about it.' We would take that literally. So, if you ask for a favor and someone says they'll think about it, they're really not thinking about it.
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How deeply one felt when alone.
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I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.
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I didn't like doing team presentations at races, being introduced as the winner of the Tour. I felt quite embarrassed by it.
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I've worked with a lot of wooden actors in my day, but Pinocchio is the best.
