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"The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed."
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"I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way."
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"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day."
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"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."
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"In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good."
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"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
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"We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath."
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"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
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"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."
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"If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend."
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"Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition."
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"Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter."
Confidence
"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."
Thought
"The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed."
Day
"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."
Money
"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."
Eating
"It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer."
Open
"My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business."
Business
"How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public."
Church
"Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements."
Fire
"In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally."
Fire
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