Ricky Jay Quotes
I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
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Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.
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I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.
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To the mouse, snow means freedom from want and fear. … To a rough-legged hawk, a thaw means freedom from want and fear.
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As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.
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The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.
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I chose my own path because that was the only way.
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My whole life was spent doing things that people didn't believe were possible, because God blessed me with the ability to throw a baseball.
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When 1970s feminism hit the United States, women demanded the right to natural childbirth and to have their husband or another support person in the delivery room. My mother gave birth to me during this time.
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I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.
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For whatever reason, I tend to get reporters who are maybe in the middle of intense therapy, and they turn what's supposed to be a professional interview into therapy for themselves.
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When you go further and further into starvation you chose yourself, your mind becomes totally obsessed with not eating. It's like a religion where everything is sinful, and there is a heaven at the end where you are thin and don't need energy anymore.
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I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.
