Jeanine Basinger Quotes
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Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.
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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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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 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'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
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Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
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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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Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
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The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University.
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I'm very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure.
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You have a core competency, something you're better at than I'll ever be, and that's your magic - your pixie dust.
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'3 Idiots' was remade in various languages down south, but it wasn't successful anywhere because the magic was created by Aamir Khan and Rajkumar Hirani.
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My dad was a Muslim and would pray five times a day. I would pray with him as much as I could, in the morning before school. Sometimes he would tell us moralistic tales about genies, magic carpets and wondrous lands. My mother is not religious - she's just English.
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All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.
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I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.
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Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
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Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
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A military leader should always understand, of all human endeavors... the one that's the most unpredictable and the most costly is warfare.
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Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.
