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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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Mandy Patinkin
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 30
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Mandel Bruce Patinkin
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Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive!
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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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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Who is the bad guy? Is America possibly the bad guy?
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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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One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
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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 think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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People who go into the arts are often hurt people. Many are manic-depressive. Some have tried suicide and some have succeeded. It's just part of the game. We are people who are oversensitive. That's why we're in this business, because of our need to communicate.
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Comparison leads to violence.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
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Arthur Miller said one of my favorite lines ever, that he had the mother say to her two sons about a very unstable father in Death of a Salesman. She said, Attention must be paid. It's one of the most resonant lines that I think he ever wrote, and I think attention must be paid to the truth.
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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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I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.
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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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When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
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