Mandy Patinkin Quotes
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I have the strength from my mother, the survivability. I have wonderful qualities from my mother - but please, Mother, forgive me - I heard judgment constantly about my father.
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On occasion, a well-constructed drama can do what no reality or news program can do, what Shakespeare does brilliantly, is it can show both sides' opinions.
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I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.
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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
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In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
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The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.