Mandy Patinkin Quotes
Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.
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I'm a very, very conservative driver.
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I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
