Dai Vernon Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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Where writers are from is one of the world' s most boring topics. Where we're born, gender or race, wealth or poverty - those are the things we spend time talking about. Stop trying to label me. I'm a writer. Worry about whether I'm any good!
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
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I play with toys. I have one plane that travels with me. It travels with the equipment.
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Recession-resistant development produces things people need. Unsustainable growth churns out tinsel products that consumers have to be seduced into buying - until times get tough, when they quickly give them up.
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Children ought not to be victims of the choices adults make for them.
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A good magic effect should easily be described in one sentence.
