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"It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer."
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"We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open."

"This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell."
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"Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way."

"When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg."
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"I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country."

"I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary."

"Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat."

"The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed."

"Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline."

"Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol."

"But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath."

"But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years."

"To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm."
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