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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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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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.
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I guess life offers you opportunities to live your dream. We just have to accept what comes our way and live those moments completely. You will not get back this time again, so live every moment you get.
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Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day. But growing up as a kid in a very pretty but ever-so-slightly boring town, where not a great deal happened, encouraged me to be more escapist, more imaginative, and more of a daydreamer.
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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
