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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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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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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At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven't been world No. 1 before.
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I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.
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We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.
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We feel we need a Capital Market Union, Energy Union, Economic and Monetary Union but we also think we need security union
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The difference between doing a remix and an original track is that when you do a remix, you obviously already have the original track as a starting point. But with the originals you start from scratch.
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Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.
