Martin Landau Quotes
I'm certainly not going to play any of Matt Damon's roles in the future. But he will eventually grow into mine, since he'll be around for a long time.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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That life is long which answers life's great end.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
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I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.
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Maybe this is because I'm a comics historian as much as anything else, but I really have a deep-seated respect for the characters that have been around since before I was born and are probably going to outlive me.
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I'm certainly not going to play any of Matt Damon's roles in the future. But he will eventually grow into mine, since he'll be around for a long time.
