Martin Landau Quotes
They were like little palaces: all rococo or art deco. You'd walk in off those hot streets into a nice, air-cooled theater, and you'd spend all day watching Cagney or Jimmy Stewart. It cost all of 17 cents.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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I think I'm a soulful singer.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
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Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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I know how demanding the process of creation is.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
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The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe.
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The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.
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They were like little palaces: all rococo or art deco. You'd walk in off those hot streets into a nice, air-cooled theater, and you'd spend all day watching Cagney or Jimmy Stewart. It cost all of 17 cents.
