David Liss
Related ALAN MOORE We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic b... LANCE BURTON Anybody who comes to the show should have an open mind. It's kind of different. Take your expectatio... CURTIS ADAMS We will show that Africa is not as distant or as different as many people think. KWEVI QUAYE This isn't a magic bullet. It's not usually a lot of fun to do, because you're usually involved with... GERALD MUELLER J.K. ROWLING DAVID LISS 'Slash' is kind of edgier, a magic show with a lot of gore and blood, people cut in half. NICK GUEVEL A lot of people have experimented with hidden cameras and magic before. What I do, which I think is ... MICHAEL CARBONARO DAVID LISS LYNN ABBEY TODD BARRY LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Many people believe in superstitions, many believe in a coincidence, while some people believe every... ADNAN BAHATTI I'm very American. I love our culture. I love the pieces, the most mundane stuff about our culture, ... EXENE CERVENKA I've never categorically been a banker. I had two internships while I was at university. The dec... DRUMMOND MONEY-COUTTS C.S. LEWIS People get so excited about magic spells, ... But it's no different than thinking positive thoughts ... ATHENA STARWOMAN AMY ADAMS So I guess I wonder, where is the line separating me into this culture or that culture, saying I hav... EOWYN IVEY Identifying Your DreamS.A.R.K. EDWARD NORTON WANG JIANLIN She believed in magic—the magic of places, the magic of people, the magic of coincidences, serendi... JAMIE LE FAY JAMES CAMERON TOM ROBBINS I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of peopl... DAVE CHAPPELLE Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where yo... DAVID BLAINE JEAN-LUC GODARD I know from day one that people have been saying that (I am favorite), KIM CLIJSTERS Portfolio managers often find that their portfolios have a level of realized risk, or realized activ... DR. SEBASTIAN CERIA MARGOT FONTEYN MARGOT FONTEYN I've noticed that a lot of people, subsequently, when they introduce me are very careful not to ... JEREMY HUNT The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the se... ANUJ SOMANY HANYA YANAGIHARA Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shal... LISA BU As you know we had a major we had to stand down while our lead actress recovered... that added a who... DON REYNOLDS DAVID LISS EVA LONGORIA A common mistake is people often fall prey to mass marketing schemes for products that are trendy. T... CHRIS LUTZ I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdin... DAVID BLAINE RUTH ST. DENIS JOYCE CAROL OATES Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values. LAURA ESQUIVEL And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the... WILLIAM DEVANE AARON SORKIN I will never forget the change that occurred when this plain, tiny little blonde got up in a theatre... ANNE BEARDSLEY I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic. RUPERT GRINT RICKY JAY WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning. DAR WILLIAMS TUCKER MAX We are usually not that different from the people we mock or demonize. No really, go ahead and compa... BRANDON CHRISTOPHER Partners or husbands can also play a role in changing our eating habits. Dating someone from another... AILSA BIRCH I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lo... LANCE BURTON HARRY HOUDINI JAY-Z TEMPLE GRANDIN CARL BERNSTEIN Let him who walks in darkness and no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God PEOPLE OF CHRIST I'm not saying the whole world will work this way, but with Airbnb, people are sleeping in other... BRIAN CHESKY RASHEED OGUNLARU GABRIEL BYRNE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ROSS MATHEWS I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries ... DAVID BLAINE I want to show people that I am that good friend and the person that a lot of people actually come t... BLAC CHYNA ERIC ROBERTS We see this a lot in social psychology, the idea of social influence and persuasion -- the whole ide... TERRY PETTIJOHN JR was magic. APRILYNNE PIKE The sizes seem right. It's pretty much as big as you get without feeling detached or too far away fr... JULIAN CASABLANCAS MICHELLE OBAMA My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 ma... DAVID POGUE RICHARD DAWKINS AVI For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've go... FIONA MCINTOSH Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, ... ROBIN MCKINLEY There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanc... LAURA ESQUIVEL I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction... NNEDI OKORAFOR It's a whole lot easier to call games from the stands. It's a whole lot quicker on the field. People... CHAD LASWELL The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That f... CECILIA BARTOLI MICHAEL SPECTER I often find that once a child unlocks the secret of words, they hunger for them. There is a kind of... LIANA LEFEY And it's different than the tsunami in Asia, where the disaster was half a world away. This time it'... DANIEL PEARSON The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents ... JAMES BOVARD I've had a big heart my whole life; all the Korn fans know that. A lot of people told me that I ... BRIAN WELCH JILL STEIN ANNE SEXTON CHARLES BUKOWSKI There's a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I've got my specialist subj... CHRIS OFILI Everybody knows this piece. It's been around forever. We've created a lot more magic than I usually ... JAKE KELLY SIR THOMAS BROWNE I have a lot of complaints from people coming from the loop or downtown. DAVID HANSHAW AMY LEIGH MERCREE BROM When you look throughout the game, whether it's David with a big three or Keefe with a steal or Bria... KIRK KACZOR There was such a buzz around the community for the Magic, and I think that was big for basketball in... CHRIS MAYBERRY We did have a lot of people from a lot of different places come in here. And whether they came here ... 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Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certai... 
There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few fu... 
In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the... 
In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the cr... 
During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were a... 
People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone... 
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth ... 
Oh, that? I never thought it was eavesdropping, Aslan. Wasn't it magic?"
I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let g... 
The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better. 
I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsi... 
The film industry is about saying no to people, and inherently you cannot take no for an ans... 
When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally prese... 
More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.' 
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. 
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. 
I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to wh... 
There were so many times I've been cast as a character that wasn't necessarily Latin. But I say, can... 
I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop. 
Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. ... 
When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders i... 
I was considered a comedy magician. And - how do I put this without sounding egotistical? - it didn&... 
I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, ... 
There aren't a whole lot of people in culture that are unapologetically masculine. 
I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic. 
Primarily I see myself as so much more than a rapper. I really believe I am the voice for a lot of p... 
People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is ... 
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a cont... 
Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's ma... 
Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from ... 
As a people, I am afraid, we tend too often to brush aside with impatience, sometimes with discourte... 
Usually, you get to interview that one girl who plays the sister on some Disney show - you interview... 
So much of new knowledge and new applications and ideas come when people from different disciplines ... 
It didn't matter to her that Tamani only had weak magic, he was magic. 
I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn't first lady my whole li... 
The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-... 
A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into someth... 
Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infec... 
We saw Jesse Jackson the victim of a smear campaign. People remember the Dean scream that was used a... 
And we are magic talking to itself, 
I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic. 
I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magic of numbers. 
Extraordinary magic is woven through ordinary life. Look around! 
Children like yourselves are full of magic, but the men have turned, they've lost their magic to the... 
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of boo... 
I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion... 
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil... 
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar... 
Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world.... 
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k... 
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. 
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar... 
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik... 
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i... 
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th... 
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. 
I always go for simplicity. 
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything. 
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth... 
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood... 
You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i... 
People use irony as a defense mechanism. 
I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go... 
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ... 
I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. 
I've had an awful lot of good fortune. 
Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is. 
Most people view success by the results, and I don't. 
The law always limits every power it gives. 
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million differe... 
Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination. 
False modesty can be worse than arrogance. 
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. 
If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve. 
What I value most in my friends is loyalty. 
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea ... 
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you ... 
I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to... 
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in... 
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my fi... 
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.