Dai Vernon Quotes
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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Michael Jackson was the biggest star the world has ever seen - he put so much into everything; a lot of attention to detail. I want to do that. I want to pay that kind of attention to detail in everything - in music, visually - all of that.
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Things explain each other, not themselves.
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You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
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Kids lead a very private life.
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The funny thing is I'm actually really insecure. I have a lot of girl issues - 'I'm not pretty enough,' 'I'm not skinny enough' - but there is a confidence I have in what I can do. I did tend to overcompensate to cover up other insecurities that I have.
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A good magic effect should easily be described in one sentence.
