Marian Seldes Quotes
I'm not a good tourist. I don't like walking around and looking at things. I like being in a city and working and finding out how other people live.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.
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I dyed my own hair this Chocolate Cherry color, and I forget what brand it was, but I remember getting into so much trouble because it stained our bathtub. It was this red-black color, and it was a big mistake.
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When things are going bad, don't get all bummed out. Don't get startled; don't get frustrated. If you can say the word 'good,' guess what? It means you're still alive. It means you're still breathing.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
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I'm not a good tourist. I don't like walking around and looking at things. I like being in a city and working and finding out how other people live.
