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"The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists."
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"No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect."
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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."
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"If life is a stage and you are your own agent, then don't hesitate to play the character you wish to play."
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"High performers whom exhibit tremendous self-control tend to be burden by their own competence. Studies indicate that being extraordinary competent can place a person under an unusual amount of stress because it raises other people's expectation of them. The more task that an exemplary employee produces with a 'go-getting personality' while maintaining high quality relationships with peers and clients, the more an organization tends to underestimates their actual effort and the more it expects of them. Other people do not comprehend how difficult it is for a high performer to complete multifaceted tasks. They also tend to underestimate how much effort an enterprising person exerts who maintains a positive and pleasant attitude while completing difficult assignments."
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"If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different."
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"Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician."
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"As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform."
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"A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances."
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"So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes."
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"Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance."
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"I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not."
Time
"People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help."
Family
"The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down."
Thought
"The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists."
Performance
"When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it."
Management
"When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever."
Life
"I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world."
People
"Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory."
Memory
"There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter?"
Time
"I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time."
Time
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