Martin Landau Quotes
I'm a big believer that an actor should be able to pick up any piece of material and act it, the way a good musician can.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.
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Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.
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If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more to the role.
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I just play to good people; they seem to like what I do, and the more they like it, the more I play.
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I'm a big believer that an actor should be able to pick up any piece of material and act it, the way a good musician can.
