Ricky Jay Quotes

I grew up like Athena - covered with playing cards instead of armor - and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

Ricky Jay

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

John Dewey

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But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

Andrew Motion

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The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.

Sumner Redstone

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I always had a great history of comics. I've been buying them since I was six years old. I was a student of the craft.

Rob Liefeld

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I restore vintage Atari XY arcade video game machines.

Roger Avary

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I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Rose McGowan

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All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world.

Ron White

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Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

Lisa Scottoline

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You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

Don Miguel Ruiz

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When it comes to fashion, follow your instinct.

Disha Patani

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I just do what I want to do. I look at what's interesting to me.

Diane Greene

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As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

Philip Kerr

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