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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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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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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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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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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If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.
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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
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Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
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The profession is never going back to those days when a handful of wealthy people treated publishing like a hobby: one where the business can lose money because the family has lots of it to burn. Frankly, I don't think that model was ever sustainable, and it really only enriched a small number of writers.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
