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I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

Mandy Patinkin

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Mandy Patinkin
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 30
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Mandel Bruce Patinkin
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This is unbearable how I talk.
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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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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
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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 would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
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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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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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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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One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
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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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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.
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I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.
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