Martin Landau Quotes
The more complicated the character, the better I am. It's the one-dimensional crap that I had to do for years that drove me crazy.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.
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I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard.
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We don't work with anyone.
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I always play what I call The Girl. The nice straight character. Sincere. Usually the victim. I'm put upon. I suffer.
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To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
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The more complicated the character, the better I am. It's the one-dimensional crap that I had to do for years that drove me crazy.
