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"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."
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"A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances."

"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."

"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."

"Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance."

"I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal."

"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."
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"I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me."

"I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last."

"I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling."

"I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do."

"I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution."

"Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too."
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