I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.
~By Bob Balaban ~
Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.
~By Alice Hoffman ~
I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.
~By Anthony Hopkins ~
Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.
~By Mark Rydell ~
It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.
~By Conrad Hall ~
Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore.
~By Kristen Bell ~
The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
~By David Copperfield ~
We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.
~By Oscar Robertson ~
Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.
~By Cornelia Funke ~
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
~By Thomas Mann ~
If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.
~By Hayley Mills ~
The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.
~By Penn Jillette ~
The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.
~By Mary Kay Blakely ~
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.
~By Stanley Kubrick ~
One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.
~By Mark Thomas ~
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
~By Mason Cooley ~
The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
~By Gail Godwin ~
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.
~By Brian May ~
So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.
~By Kenneth Branagh ~
The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.
~By Martin Puryear ~
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
~By Angela Carter ~
There is something else at work here that is beyond me - and that is Laura. She has a life of her own. There is a magic in her. The muse is in her. And I'm lucky to have her in my life.
~By Genie Francis ~
I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
~By Ann Patchett ~
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.
~By Merton Miller ~
Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
~By Nora Roberts ~
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
~By Colin Powell ~
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
~By Thomas Beecham ~
It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.
~By Sherilyn Fenn ~
In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
~By Lou Reed ~
But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
~By Edie Brickell ~
In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?
~By Christian Bale ~
I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them.
~By Mark Knopfler ~
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
~By Thomas Dekker ~
One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.
~By John Sexton ~
Anyway, it fell through because they ran out of money. That was when I learned not to waste your time getting your hopes up or to believe something until it actually happens. We broke up for various reasons, but it was a good band. Jim and Don produced some magical music.
~By Jamie Muir ~
You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.
~By Patrick Swayze ~
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
~By David Knopfler ~
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
~By Thomas Szasz ~
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.
~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
~By Edward Steichen ~
So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.
~By Bill Sienkiewicz ~
When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.
~By Bob Verdi ~
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.
~By Sara Paretsky ~
How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?
~By Henry Martyn ~
A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.
~By Max von Sydow ~
One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
~By Eli Wallach ~
If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
~By Gavin Rossdale ~
It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves.
~By James Marsters ~
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
~By Eden Phillpotts ~
I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.
~By David Blane ~
If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.
~By Neil Patrick Harris ~
A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
~By Tom Robbins ~
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
~By Ouida ~
I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
~By Dennis Potter ~
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
~By Daniel Burnham ~
So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.
~By Charlie Hunter ~
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
~By Ralph Allen ~
Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.
~By David K. Shipler ~
Movies are like magic tricks.
~By Jeff Bridges ~
I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.
~By Charles Manson ~
There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.
~By Laurel Clark ~
It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
~By Caroline Gordon ~
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.
~By Louis Leakey ~
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
~By John Quincy Adams ~
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
~By Charles Eames ~
They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.
~By Dennis Eckersley ~
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
~By Aaron Allston ~
You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.
~By Sonia Braga ~
It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.
~By Deborah Bull ~
The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in.
~By Benny Green ~
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.
~By Terry Southern ~
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
~By Keith Haring ~
I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.
~By Paul Daniels ~
I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.
~By Rod Taylor ~
Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of LA in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.
~By Jay Leno ~
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.
~By Roberto Benigni ~
Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.
~By Ben Okri ~
There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
~By Ida Rentoul Outhwaite ~
There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.
~By Bill Kurtis ~
I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic.
~By Rupert Grint ~
Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear.
~By Susie Bright ~
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
~By Philip Guston ~
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