Martin Landau Quotes
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
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None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.
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And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
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Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
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'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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I've seen so many scripts, and I want to do everything. Like with kiteboarding, you have to be fearless. I'm not scared.
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A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
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I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
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Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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I am so inspired by new media.
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Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
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I'm not one for sitting around listening to my own music, because I tend to cringe and think that I could have done better. I also suffer from red light syndrome quite a lot. I tend to narrow my thinking when the red light goes on to record. Instead of just relaxing and playing and emoting, I think of time being wasted so I won't take a chance on something. Consequently, when I hear it back, I think, "Why the hell did I play it so safe on that piece of music when I could have really opened up?" Well, it's because of not wanting to make a mistake.
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There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich
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I look for roles where there is some kind of an arc to the story.
