Andrew Mayne Quotes
Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
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Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.
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What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'
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Being a father is just wonderful.
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What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.
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I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.
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Girls run the world.
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I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
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I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.
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The Master keeps her mind always at one with the Tao; that is what gives her her radiance. The Tao is ungraspable. How can her mind be at one with it? Because she doesn't cling to ideas. The Tao is dark and unfathomable. How can it make her radiant? Because she lets it. Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not. How do I know this is true? I look inside myself and see.
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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
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As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.
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Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.
