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“Basically the job of a magician is to do impossible things that challenge the nature of the universe. And I think some magicians buy into that perception a little too much. These days that turns people off a little bit. I'm not a wizard. I don't have special powers. If I did, I would not be doing magic for a living!”
Source : Source: www.esquire.com
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“He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.”
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“While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.”
Source : "How I jumped out of the sack race" by Meg Rosoff, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.
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“His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that the whole of history is incomprehensible without him.”
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“In the times in which we live it is far too restricting to say that art can only be found in art galleries and not touch people's everyday lives. I want to use any means that are necessary to communicate with people what I feel about things. There are no rules. And if there are rules, then you may as well break them.”
Source : Ken Done (1996). “Ken Done: Paintings and Drawings, 1975-1987”, Craftsman House (AU)
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“Now I am master of Shanghai.”
Source : "America Views China: American Images of China Then and Now". Book by Jonathan Goldstein, p. 19, 1991.
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“They're trying to say that greater federal authority would have made a difference, ... The reality is that the feds are the ones that screwed up in the first place. It's not about authority. It's about leadership. ... They've got all the authority already.”
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“Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.”