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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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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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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Our focus was directed at developing the best possible and easiest to use product, and this is where we invested our time. Realize that you won't be able to bring the same focus to everything in the beginning. There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So, focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.
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If you think you can do two full-time jobs, people will expect you to do three.
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It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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Food deserts on Chicago's South Side have shrunk some since 2006, and this has provided health benefits to the communities.
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Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.
