Alan Chadwick Quotes
Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.
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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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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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Coffee makes me go crazy.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.
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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.
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I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm drawn to projects that end up being incredibly laborious.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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Ted, I noted, was very busy - at the pumps, at the glasses behind, the bottles below, the merrily ringing till, like a percussion-player in some modern work who dashes with confidence from xylophone to glockenspiel to triangle to wind-machine to big drum to tambourine.
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I love to dress up. You have to have a sense of fun in life, too. We can all be serious and work and do our bit, but every now and again you have to have a good giggle.
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Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.
