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"I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do."
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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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"I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am."

"I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho."

"For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change."

"I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do."
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