Martin Landau Quotes
I still care about human behavior and the art that it takes to write a good piece and to get a cast together who cares enough to put 150 percent of their talent into a project.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
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I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I. I must say that so often in earlier times when I saw people of the lower classes, simple manual laborers who could believe so rightly with their hearts, I always envied them, and now tell me how does one begin this?
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In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that's the news, too.
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I'm not a lawyer- I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.
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I used to say, read as much as you can. Now I say, read the best that you can, the stories that resonate with you, the books that are important to you. Try to read, not only as a reader, but also as a writer, to deconstruct how the author is telling his or her story.
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Any time you make the transfer of 'I've created something, and I'm giving it to you, and I hope it makes you happy,' that's good.
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I still care about human behavior and the art that it takes to write a good piece and to get a cast together who cares enough to put 150 percent of their talent into a project.
