Mandy Patinkin Quotes
The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
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Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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People love teen movies because everyone can relate.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
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The future is in green energy; it's in making steel for energy-efficient cars.
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled 'Science Fiction' … and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
