Harry Houdini Quotes
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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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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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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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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We must secure our borders and restore the rule of law, and more than anyone running, Ted Cruz has fought to make this nation secure while protecting our constitutional rights.
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Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
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I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.
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People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student. I was voted Girl Most Likely To Succeed at North Mesquite High in Texas. My best subject was science. I won a scholarship.
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So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do not be surprised to see American students continuing to score lower on international tests than students in countries that spend a lot less per pupil than we do.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
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Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.
