David Blaine Quotes
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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I'm my best billboard.
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I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.
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Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.
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Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'
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In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.
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I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.
