David Blaine Quotes
I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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We cannot watch another family lose everything - risking their lives and the lives of the first responders sent to rescue them - because the flood insurance program's seal of government approval fooled them into thinking they were safe. That's more than wrong: it's immoral.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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I don't think any business has to give up legal protections in order to simplify. The main consideration is that whatever protection, rights and remedies a corporation wants, they should be put in terms that are understandable to the consumer.
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I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.
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I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.
