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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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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As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.
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When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it's sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.
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I don't believe in the power of words.
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We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
