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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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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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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The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms into a beautiful nature and soft countenance. In others, however, it leads to the formation of a tiny ice flint in their heart. Ice that, though at times concealed, never properly melts. Rose, though she would have liked to be one of the former, knew herself deep down to be one of the latter.
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I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.
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Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
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I think there are times when you're jamming with the universe, and other times when it feels like no matter how hard I work, no matter how good a person I am, I will always be punished for being mediocre.
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I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
