Mandy Patinkin Quotes
In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.

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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.
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I've heard people on panels say, 'You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the title of your book constantly,' and I just want to say, 'Shut up. Everything you're saying is wrong.' People will know instantly if your only motivation for tweeting is to sell books.
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I guess I'm a real fan of older music, and that's what shaped my taste and the way I sing.
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Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.
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Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.