Mandy Patinkin Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
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I love doing kids' films.
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Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you're doing, and occasionally I've gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.
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If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.
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I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.
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It's cheesy, but having a pimple or a bad hair day isn't going to matter in five years. I don't always remember that, but I try.
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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.