"When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real."

-- Salman Rushdie

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“My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.”
“In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.”

Source : "Let's Talk Quality: 96 Questions You Always Wanted to Ask Phil Crosby". Book by Philip B. Crosby, 1989.
“The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.”
“When I became of service to other people I stopped worrying about my weight so much.”
“The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.”
“I always change my hair, but I don't like haircuts!”
“All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.”
“Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted.”

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