Dai Vernon Quotes
In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.
Dai Vernon
Quotes to Explore
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
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I've had an extraordinary life as a dancer. You tour the world, you see all the great capitals of the world, the beautiful old opera houses all over Europe - you go everywhere. As a teenager, I would always say, 'I can't believe this is happening to little me,' because it was always a dream to dance.
Patricia McBride
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'
Lance Burton
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
Imogen Poots
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Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.
Oswald Chambers
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Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.
Ingrid Newkirk
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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Peter Ustinov
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I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?
Toil on, poor heart, unceasingly;
And thou shalt find thy dream to be
A truth and noonday light to thee.
Ellen Sturgis Hooper
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Hurricane Katrina has starkly illustrated what real poverty exists in our country today, ... To cut holes in the health care safety-net for our fellow Americans in need is unconscionable. It is immoral to ask people who have lost everything to pay more for health care.
Lois Capps
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In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.
Dai Vernon
