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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I don't talk in ifs.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
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In the press this week, NBC has been calling me every name in the book. In fact, they think I'm such an idiot they now want me to run the network.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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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.
