Magic Quotes
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My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it.
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I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids.
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Where there is a woman there is magic.
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The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.
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The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
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We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it.
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Because the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.
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In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.
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There is a magic power in your own hands. Take your vital decisions-they may be grave and momentous and far-reaching in their consequences. Think a hundred times before you take any decision, but once a decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
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Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.
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This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.
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Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.
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This is why magic is worse even than quantum physics. Because, while both spit in the eye of common sense, I've never yet had a Higgs bosun turn up and try to have a conversation with me.
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From the time I was 9 years old, I loved magic. I was an only child, and I think that had a big impact on me. I always had grown-up friends even though I was a little kid. I would take the train from Lido Beach into Manhattan, and I'd hang out in magic shops.
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Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
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That's the magic of filmmaking, to draw the audience into an exotic world and keep them there and keep the suspense.
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The leader is the person who brings a little magic to the moment.
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Eric Young is phenomenal. Bobby Roode - every time I get in the ring with those guys, it's almost like magic.
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The Pope doesn't believe in God; Did you ever see a conjurer who believed in Magic ?
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My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic.
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The magic is you can change more things than you could ever dream of.
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Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.
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I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.
