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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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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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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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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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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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
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Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.
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The only one that's appeared in my dreams is the one from Aliens. H.R. Giger's version of that Necronom was almost like a tic. It's reptilian. That creature is like a baby and tic combined. It's very frightening. It scared the hell out of me, it really did.
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We are probably the only artists in the world who have a 2,000-page book on a work of art that doesn't exist. But in this way, these projects reveal their identity through this whole process. When I'm starting, I only have the slightest idea of how the work of art will exist.
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Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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Society is basically not interested in art. Art has a purpose of its own.
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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.
