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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

Mandy Patinkin

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Mandy Patinkin
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 30
Actor
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Chicago
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Mandel Bruce Patinkin
Mandy Bruce Patinkin
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I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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Comparison leads to violence.
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I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
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But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
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There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.
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The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.
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One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
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Everything I experience influences everything I do.
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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
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I want to protect everyone in the world, and I believe the way to protect them is to stop the killing universally. Create opportunity and better systems of living and existing, quality of life to humanity all over the world.
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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All great men usually are awakened by the great women in their lives. No matter what friction is there, if that relationship was there, that usually is their best friend, at the end of the day.
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If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.
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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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