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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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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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 consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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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 will never say never, but I can tell you right now - I am perfectly happy with being who I am. I just - I really - I'm an entertainer, and the thing that I'd decided to work on was my career, and I decided the energy that I was putting in certain relationships - I was really kind of wasting my time, and I knew it.
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I really like Los Angeles. I like the weather, the openness of it, the beach, the mountains, the desert. I find it inspiring. I get quite a lot of writing done out there.
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The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.
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For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
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Many successful people have fear, along with doubts and worries. The difference is that those who know how to succeed also know how to take action despite these worries and fears. You too can learn how to master fear, by understanding that fear is in our own minds, and therefore under our own control.
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It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.
