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"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance."
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"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."

"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."

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

"High performers whom exhibit tremendous self-control tend to be burden by their own competence. Studies indicate that being extraordinary competent can place a person under an unusual amount of stress because it raises other people's expectation of them. The more task that an exemplary employee produces with a 'go-getting personality' while maintaining high quality relationships with peers and clients, the more an organization tends to underestimates their actual effort and the more it expects of them. Other people do not comprehend how difficult it is for a high performer to complete multifaceted tasks. They also tend to underestimate how much effort an enterprising person exerts who maintains a positive and pleasant attitude while completing difficult assignments."

"If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different."

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

"A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances."

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

"Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance."

"Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed."
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"If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off."

"Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards."

"But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is."

"And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world."

"It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego."

"The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them."

"I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent."
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