Mandy Patinkin Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.
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A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had.
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
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A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.
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Moving to the U.S. was an adjustment. I noticed that the kids played in groups. Back in Kakuma, everyone played together.
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Films that I want to do are few and far between.
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I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.
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I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
