Mandy Patinkin Quotes
The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I waited for my first kiss.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
