E. J. Hughes Quotes
Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.
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My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Sometimes films might not work, but you as an actor should keep working. Because no matter how much you panic about how your film didn't work, eventually, when you step out in the real world, there are people who value you as an artist.
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High-stakes lying is out of control. And it's costing us big bucks in one way or another. It's not simply a matter of quantifying losses in dollars. It's costing us emotionally and psychologically as well.
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'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.
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It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
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The vamp in McMann’s stared at me. I guess he didn’t like the Goth look. Most of them don’t; somehow they think I’m making fun of them. Which I totally am.
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Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan.
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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
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Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.
