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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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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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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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.
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I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.
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I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.
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'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.
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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
