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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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Mandy Patinkin
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 30
Actor
Director
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Chicago
Illinois
Mandel Bruce Patinkin
Mandy Bruce Patinkin
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I hope that something can be done in our piece that reflects on the attention that needs to be paid to the most vulnerable people, like refugees in the world right now, that have to not be politicized, but saved, literally.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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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.
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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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I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
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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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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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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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