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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I probably don't make as much money as people think I make. I make more than the usual medium household. I'm one of the few middle class actors out there. The microcosm of Hollywood reflects the macrocosm of international finance.
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Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.
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I had to overcome bullies and other people who didn't like me and tormented me. I overcame those things with positive affirmations and setting goals. When I would set goals, I wouldn't let anything get in the way of me breaking them. As I found success, a lot of those things subsided and became less important.
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Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions.
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Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.
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A good magic effect should easily be described in one sentence.
