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 ~
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
~By Boyd Rice ~
Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.
~By Alicia Witt ~
I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
~By Natalie Wood ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
Music is the strongest form of magic.
~By Marilyn Manson ~
Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
~By Mason Cooley ~
The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.
~By Paul Hoffman ~
I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.
~By Paul Daniels ~
For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.
~By James Broughton ~
In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.
~By Danny DeVito ~
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 ~
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
~By Allan Bloom ~
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 ~
Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.
~By Leslie Fiedler ~
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.
~By Max von Sydow ~
I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly.
~By Charles Manson ~
That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.
~By Stephen Dorff ~
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 ~
You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's like magic. That's why you play the game. That's what it's for. That's why you work.
~By Greg Rusedski ~
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
~By Charles Eames ~
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 ~
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 ~
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
~By Lou Reed ~
We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.
~By Lance Burton ~
There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital.
~By Lloyd Kaufman ~
I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic.
~By Rupert Grint ~
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 ~
Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits.
~By Ellen Muth ~
There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious.
~By Bill Toomey ~
Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.
~By Jeff Bridges ~
Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.
~By Rutger Hauer ~
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 ~
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
~By Kathy Acker ~
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 ~
There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary.
~By Richard Berry ~
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 ~
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
~By Tom Peters ~
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.
~By Duane Michals ~
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 ~
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 ~
Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.
~By Oscar Robertson ~
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 ~
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
~By Jim Rohn ~
There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since.
~By Raymond E. Feist ~
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 ~
One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
~By Eli Wallach ~
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
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 ~
I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
~By Brian Eno ~
I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
~By Lorna Luft ~
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 ~
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 ~
I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.
~By David Knopfler ~
Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.
~By Bill McCartney ~
The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc.
~By John Hench ~
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.
~By Merton Miller ~
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
~By Colin Powell ~
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
~By Isabel Allende ~
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 ~
But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.
~By Robert Barnes ~
When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.
~By Nia Vardalos ~
Art is a sense of magic.
~By Stan Brakhage ~
I know the difference between black magic and white magic.
~By Tina Turner ~
When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.
~By Terry Southern ~
I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.
~By John Perry Barlow ~
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
~By Ben Okri ~
The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
~By David Copperfield ~
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
~By Chris Van Allsburg ~
The theater is magical and addictive.
~By Angela Lansbury ~
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
~By Billy Joel ~
Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?
~By Jon Bon Jovi ~
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 ~
Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
~By Robert MacNeil ~
What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.
~By Eric Cantor ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.
~By Sandy Koufax ~
It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.
~By Merrill Markoe ~
Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
~By Gary Gygax ~
A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
~By Simone de Beauvoir ~
I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.
~By James Cameron ~
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
~By Tom Robbins ~
And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.
~By Dar Williams ~
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
~By Michael Bergin ~
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