Steve Valentine Quotes

I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.

Steve Valentine

• Magic
• Acting
• Audience

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• Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Relationships

• Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Chance
  • Note
  • Seldom

• The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • United States
  • Greatest

• I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Theatre

• I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Story
  • Tell
  • Miss

• I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Work
  • Picture
  • Movies

• The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Will
  • Nation
  • Forgotten

• I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Me
  • Single
  • Pleasure

• I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tournament and try to talk to her and try to get a little bit of the pressure off.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Try
  • Week
  • Pressure

• A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.

  

  Yuna
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Music
  • Stop

• I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Hate
  • Sound

• Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Man
  • Voice
  • Give

• Money for me today does not really matter.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Money
  • Today
  • Me

• It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Uncomfortable

• My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Women
  • Choices
  • Judge

• I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Fear

• Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my best and to improve.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • Me
  • Comedy
  • Feel

• Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Real
  • Acting
  • Emotions

• If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Magic

• I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's like love; you can only see magic by the effect it has on people.

  

  Drummond Money-Coutts
  • People
  • Real
  • Magic

• I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Giving
  • Artist
  • Audience

• I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.

  

  Steve Valentine
  • Magic
  • Acting
  • Audience