Harry Houdini Quotes
No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
Quotes to Explore
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
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Making a movie is like an accelerated version of growing up with someone. You spend so many hours a day with each other, and you're putting your heart into this same effort.
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People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.
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A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.
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In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
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If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.
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I repeat the question, 'Can Louisiana be brought into proper practical relation with the Union sooner by sustaining or by discarding her new State Government?'
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Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
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I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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I've been standing, tippy- toe, waiting to be kissed (by the Republican Party), and no one has come forward.
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There are so many groups making so much money in the medical care system that any major reorganization is going to make someone unhappy or anxious at the least, ... I don't know how you do it.
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Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
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Whenever I buy a painting, someone invariably says, "Oh, what a great investment." And I hate that reaction. To me, it's a matter of love and not an exchange of equity.
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Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
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I'm really terrible at sort of figuring out the thing that's going to make the money, I guess.
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The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.
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No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
