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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I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.
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It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem.
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You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.
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Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.