James Schuyler Quotes
It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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I'm a firm believer in utilizing celebrities because they tap into people on an emotional basis.
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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
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There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out.
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For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy.
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It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.
