Martin Landau Quotes
I felt I knew Lugosi. Like him, I had worked for good directors and terrible directors.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.
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America was and is the immigrant's dream.
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A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.
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Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.
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I felt I knew Lugosi. Like him, I had worked for good directors and terrible directors.
