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"Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around."
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"A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience."
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"It's still magic even if you know how it's done."
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"For a professional magician, a stack of playing cards is as good as a stack of money."
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"Raw power doesn't determine all that you can do with magic. Focus matters, too. The better your focus is, the better you are at putting your power in one place at the same time, the more you can get done."
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"Performing magic in the live show thrills me. Just get me a deck of cards and some attentive audience, and I have made my day and theirs too."
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"If you feel afraid of magic, then you've been enchanted."
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"But magic must hurry on, and the lovers remain..."
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"This was a great magic. Festin had no more performed it than has any man who in exile or danger longs for the earth and waters of his home, seeing and yearning over the doorsill of his house, the table where he has eaten, the branches outside the window of the room where he has slept. Only in dreams do any but the great Mages realize this magic of going home."
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"How could people not believe in magic when the whole world is made of it?"
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"We always underestimated our own participation in magic. That is, we thought of magic as something that existed with or without us. But that's not true. Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them, and then deem them so. Ryan and Avery will say the first moment they spoke, the first moment they danced, was magical. But they were the ones-no one else, nothing else-who gave it the magic. We know. We were there. Ryan opened himself to it. Avery opened himself to it. And the act of opening was all they needed. That is the magic."
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"The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it."
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"When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into."
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"Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller."
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"What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past."
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"I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes."
Music
"There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before."
Old
"I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years."
Experience
"I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place."
Time
"One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from."
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"Filmmaking can be a fine art."
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