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'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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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 never pursued being 'famous.'
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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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The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Even though I played in the NBA, we tried to give our kids as normal a life as possible. We gave them everything they needed, not everything they wanted, and they had to work for what they wanted. I think that mentality helped.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.
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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.
