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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I wear Spanx to smooth things out. I read that Jessica Alba wears them and if she wears them, then so should I.
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We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.
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I really have to pace myself. I work about 75 hours a week.
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You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.
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I started experimenting with jewelry in my 20s - I was playing around with gemstones and painting things in gold leaf, and it turned into this huge obsession for me, so I launched my first jewelry line, Jade Inc.
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Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.
