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"Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy."
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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."

"Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician."

"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."

"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."

"I attended a symposium to hear Shilagh Mirgain, Ph.D. speak on Mindful Leadership. Throughout her program, I made sure to make eye contact and smile to support, affirm, and engage with her presentation. When audience members do this for me, it adds an extra punch of dynamic energy that enriches my presentations and improves my performance."

"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."

"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"

"As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform."

"If life is a stage and you are your own agent, then don't hesitate to play the character you wish to play."

"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event."
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"At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point."

"We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be."

"One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this."

"United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?"

"Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible."

"The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!"

"I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life."

"One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express."

"I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around."

"It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm."
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