Charles Dickens Quotes
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
Quotes to Explore
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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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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I don't mind having people over, but it's weird how much more withdrawn I've become than being social in public places, I guess.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
