Mandy Patinkin Quotes
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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I love so many styles of music.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
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My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.
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I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
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I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.
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Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.
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Ironically, I find it harder to get a foothold in Australia than I do in the U.S. When I was in Australia, I struggled. It can be a bit of a closed shop; it can be hard for a newcomer to break in, whereas in the U.S., it has much more of an open-door policy, and they will give anyone a shot.
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I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.
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If I have a tombstone when it's all over, it will say, 'He tried to connect.'
