Harry Houdini Quotes
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I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it.
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I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.
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If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.
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There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can and can't do. You've got to have 100 percent support from everybody who's behind the show, across the board.
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The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.
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There aren't many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they've wanted to do since childhood, so in that regard, I feel incredibly fortunate.
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It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.
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Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.
