When you become president, they don't give you a magic wand that you wave. You have to get legislation passed. You have to get agencies to run programs.
Andrew Cuomo
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There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.
Richard Dawkins
MagicJust BecauseCheapSomething
I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.
Madchen Amick
WorldMagicBackKnowOldReligions
You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.
Chris Hughes
LearnSolutionPovertyMagicYou
I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic.
William Christopher
LifePeopleMagicLatePlayActor
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
John Mortimer
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To me, the magic of photography, per se, is that you can capture an instant of a second that couldn't exist before and couldn't exist after. It's almost like a cowboy that draws his gun. You draw a second before or after, you miss and you're dead - not them. To me, photography's always like that.
Mario Testino
MeGunMagicPhotographyYouDead
What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.
Laura Esquivel
MeMagicEverydayOthersNormal
I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
Deborah Harkness
WorkGoodMagicStudyingBeenAbout
Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.
Teller
TimeSomeoneMagicSometimesMore
'Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children's book.
Maureen Johnson
ChildrenBookMagicEnjoySpecial
To me, the best projects are the ones where you have a pretty good idea of what the spine of it's gonna be, but then all sorts of things happen that you could've never predicted, and those are the magic moments of the films.
Marshall Curry
GoodBestMeMagicMomentsYou
I struggle quite a lot in rehearsals, partly because I'm shy, partly because I still don't really understand the work that actors and directors do. I love the magic at the end, but the getting there - the wrong turns that are necessary to make something work - I find slightly beguiling and worrying.
Jack Thorne
WorkLoveStruggleEndMagicFind
Magic is still a very white-male-dominated field.
Chloe Benjamin
MagicStillFieldVery
Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.
Terri Windling
AmericanLiteratureMagicLongNew
When I was a boy living in Edinburgh in Scotland, especially in December, when the hours of daylight were few, and it was cold, and often wet, I used to dream of escaping to a tropical magic kingdom.
Angus Deaton
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Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.
Jeanine Basinger
MagicCinemaRadioLikeBit
One day, I saw a magic show, and I was like, 'I have to learn how to do this!' Every time I went to Las Vegas, I had to get at least two or three tricks from the magic shops.
Lilla Crawford
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I think hope and magic are probably connected.
Kate DiCamillo
HopeThinkMagicConnectedI Think
If I could wave a magic wand and be anything, I'd be a really respected, really successful author. That's a hard combination to get, though. I really enjoy acting, and it's easier, frankly.
Christine Elise
WaveMagicEnjoyActingHardGet
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.
Sara Paretsky
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Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years.
Andy Hertzfeld
MagicYearAppleStartingExistence
If I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.
Kenneth C. Griffin
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Art gives us an opportunity to not have to leave or go somewhere or do something to experience the magic in our lives. It actually gets us to sit back and be where we are and recognize we're already magical.
Irvin Mayfield
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