James Broughton Quotes
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
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It's an honor to be a part of Magic Shave as their new ambassador. One of the problems that some African-American men have with shaving is razor bumps. Magic Shave is perfect because once you eliminate the razor, you eliminate the bumps, and it's so easy to use.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.
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It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.
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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.
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I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.
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I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.
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Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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Magic symbolises the subconscious - that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes don't tap into.
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The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
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I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.
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I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.
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While I accept that large investment rounds will always garner headlines, it's almost as if the magic number of how much cash you've managed to raise has become both a stamp of approval and the main metric for gauging a business's true worth.
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Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
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All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
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I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.
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I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
