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"I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll."
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"A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances."

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

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

"I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance."

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

"It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling."

"So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes."

"The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections."

"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."

"When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows."
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"Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book."

"Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man."

"Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty."

"All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms."

"Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography."

"I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story."
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