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The time it takes to get something done is the time it takes.
Mandy Patinkin
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Mandy Patinkin
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 30
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Mandel Bruce Patinkin
Mandy Bruce Patinkin
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I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.
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I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
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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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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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The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
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Everything I experience influences everything I do.
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