Allegra Versace Quotes
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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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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.
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She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.
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There is a kind of adventure- and risk-seeking audience in classical contemporary music that is really empowering and part of what draws me to it. The people that come to these concerts are open-minded and curious.
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The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.
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The workplace can be a good place to find opportunities to socialise, but what if you don't meet any like-minded people there, or what if you work alone? Is it, somewhat counter-intuitively, easier to find yourself lonely in a city than in a small town or village?
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I don't tell many people my last name.
