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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.

Mandy Patinkin

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Mandy Patinkin
Age: 71
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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Everything I experience influences everything I do.
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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 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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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
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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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