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“Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.”

Way Mean Said Country Rich Comedy Magic Streets Ghost Chicago Realism Urban Astonishing Reviewers Breathtaking Mean Streets

Author:Sara Paretsky

“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.”

“I can cite a few cases of where people have tampered around with magic and witchcraft that they've been very severely frightened and traumatised by some of the outcomes. I mean we are playing with fire, and I had to say that.”

People Mean I Can Cases Fire Magic Outcomes Frightened Witchcraft Citing Playing With Fire

Author:Peter Hollingworth

“A great team doesn’t mean that they had the smartest people. What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists.”

People Mean Made Powerful Magic Team Trusted Great Team

Book:The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Source: The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

“I mean time management is a big factor in my life. I'm a very organized person. You can only do one thing at a time, so that's the main way I do everything. When I'm with my kids, I'm with my kids. When I'm directing a movie, I'm directing a movie. When I'm making Magic Mike, I'm making Magic Mike. So you just really have to fragment and focus.”

Way Mean Persons Bigs Kids Focus Magic One Thing Management Factors Organized Time Management Fragments Mike One Thing At A Time Magic Mike

Author:Elizabeth Banks

“Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.”

Way Writing Mind Mean Soul Body Force Wish Magic Thousand Draws Letters Distance Silent Division Absent Pow Absent Friends

Author:Aaron Hill

“While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.”

Mean Art Magic Findings Creator Invoke Supernatural Powers Mojo

Author:Robert Genn

“When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.”

Mean Littles Made Stills Feelings Kids Remember Saws Magic Universal Studios Tricks Grandfather Glimpse Little Kid My Grandfather Magic Tricks Universal Studios

Author:J. J. Abrams

“Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior.”

“Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.”

World May Mean Said Known Magic Performances Statements Witness Opposition Primitive Magician

Book:Wild Talents

Source: Wild Talents

“Every morning I have been looking at CNN to see if there is any reason for hope. I see a few large and impressive peace protests here and there around the world, but mostly I see empty robot faces monotonously reciting the magic incantations, "We must support the President" and "We must support our troops," both of which mean the killing must continue.”

“Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.”

Knows Mean Art Imagination Know How Magic Effects Produce Invisible Visible Dogma Unseen Magician Employing Magic Powers

Book:The Magician: A Novel

Source: The Magician: A Novel

“When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real.”

People Way Mean Real Moments Use Term Magic Arise Rooted Realism Fairytale Surrealism Magic Realism

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities.”

“You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage until you have succeeded in the Operation. More, unless you mean to perform it, and are prepared to go to any length to do so, you are a fool to have the book in your possession at all. Those squares are liable to get loose and do things on their own initiative; and you won't like it.”

Mean Book Use Given Magic Fool Accounts Sacred Prepared Possession Operations Length Squares Initiative Liable

Author:Aleister Crowley

“The most romantic thing is to look someone straight in the eyes and say and mean, “I love you”, that's a lot. It's a really hard thing because you can never be certain of yourself, but at that particular moment, you feel like that. Its magic”

Feels Looks Mean Hard Moments Eye Certain Magic Love You Particular Hard Things Most Romantic

Author:Ville Valo

“Obviously, therefore, we must be able to transcribe what is in us into our mental and objective consciousness, by establishing a relationship between the life in us and observation of that life in Nature. This we find supremely well expressed by the ancient Egyptians. It is a knowledge of magic, pure and sane, which can lead rapidly toward the spiritual goal of our lives, owing to the fact that we can evoke, by means of the sympathy of analogues in our surroundings, the consciousness of the heart latent in us.”

Wells Heart Mean Facts Able Spiritual Goal Consciousness Our Lives Magic Pure Ancient Objectives Observation Sane Surroundings Evoke Latent Owing Analogue Ancient Egyptian

Author:R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

“The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens.”

Believe Mean Pay Magic Stones Math Percentages Casinos Omen Numerology Amulets

Author:Frank Scoblete

“[My work] is using light as a material to influence or affect the medium of perception. I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.”

Way Want Feels Mean Use Light Wonderful Magic Influence Materials Drink Perception Skins Mediums Vitamins Elixir Vitamin D

Author:James Turrell

“It is better to have a cat and mouse game where the cat has the upper hand than a cat and mouse game where the mice are ruling. Because the latter means that the market participants are given free range. That was actually the big misconception of our national hero Ronald Reagan, who always talked about the magic of the market.”

Mean Hands Bigs Games Given Magic Hero Cat Range Latter Mice Ruling Misconception Participants Upper Hand Cat And Mouse

Author:George Soros

“Some writing courses will advise you to write what you know. I've always thought this is very odd advice ... because it means, for example, that I should not be writing about Nicholas Flamel, because I didn't live in France in the 15th Century, I was not an alchemyst, am not immortal (despite the rumours) and do not know magic.”

Knows Should Writing Mean Courses Magic Advice Century Example Despite France Odd Immortal Advise Rumours

Author:Michael Scott

“I continue to say that I wish we had another word other than magic. It no longer means what we are doing or we are attempting to do. We have to find another terminology. Magic is first and foremost a way of belief.”

Way Firsts Mean Belief Wish Magic Attempting Terminology

Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

“The incipient magician will confess his faith to a universal religion. He will find out that every religion has good points as well as bad ones. He will therefore keep the best of it for himself and ignore the weak points, which does not necessarily mean that he must profess a religion, but he shall express awe to each for of worship, for each religion has its proper principle of God, whether the point in question be Christianity, Buddhism, Islam or any other kind of religion.”

Wells Kind Mean Doe Christianity Principles Magic Buddhism Worship Weak Universal Islam Awe Mysticism Magician Weak Points

Author:Franz Bardon

“I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before he starts writing it and asking himself if it is all right as a story. I mean, once you go saying to yourself, 'This is a pretty weak plot as it stands, but I'm such a hell of a writer that my magic touch will make it okay,' you're sunk. If they aren't in interesting situations, characters can't be major characters, not even if you have the rest of the troop talk their heads off about them.”

Ifs Way Writing Believe Mean Character Stories I Believe Interesting Situation Hell Magic Majors Weak Okay Mark Asking Plot Examining Interesting Situations

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“But the Fear (that sensation that all writers get of how the hell do words get from my puny little brain to into a book, and isn't magic somehow involved, and surely I'm not qualified to be involved in any part of that process, and I somehow managed that tomorrow, but you mean I have to do it this morning too, well how do I even start?) withdraws quite a bit when it's already light and lovely outside when I get to my desk. So I got right past that big moment today, and into the fun slide down towards the ending, yelling whee.”

Wells Mean Littles Book Moments Bigs Light Today Past Fun Bits Process Brain Morning Hell Magic Tomorrow Involved Lovely Sensations Desks Qualified Slides Yelling

Author:Paul Cornell

“It is the exact experience of mathematics. Not merely the adding up of your grocery bill, or the daily uses that we make of number. But the great concept of a universal exactitude, that numbers are an instrument of magic. And by means of them, men can unlock all the wonders of the world.”

Men World Mean Use Numbers Wonder Magic Concepts Universal Mathematics Instruments Bills Groceries Wonder Of The World Exactitude

Author:Manly Hall

“We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task of thinking to the machine. Of course, the machine isn't thinking, which means that nobody is.”

Thinking Mean Courses Magic Calling Offers Illusion Tasks Machines Intelligent Software Mediocrity Seducing

Author:Larry Constantine

“I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, well, neither do I. I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything- You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.”

Want Wells Mean I Can Girl Magic Talent Figures Band Picks Get Better Tunes Bass Unicorn Tell A Girl

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“Why is monotheistic faith better than polytheistic? I mean, either you believe - if you believe in, like, a magic person who can do magic things, why is it different - so different if it's Superman or the Fantastic Four?”

Ifs Believe Mean Persons Different Can Do Four Magic Fantastic If You Believe Fantastic Four

Author:Bill Maher

“I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that my works should be as famous as Laurie's music. I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle,-something heroic, or wonderful,-that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all, some day. I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.”

Source: Little Women: Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy

“I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive seminars and no one has demolished it so far. I did think that this idea from an artisanal and trading perception of the auratic quality of goods when they are given character and inscription, made the stories of phantasmic wealth read more powerfully in the 18th and 19th centuries than the stories of Cinderella's wealth, because they are conjured out of nothing by these magic means.”

Thinking Mean Made Ideas Character Stories Given Wealth Quality Magic Century Perception Economics Argument Nonsense Massive Goods Thinker Trading 19th Century Marxist Inscriptions Seminars

Author:Marina Warner

“You have to really make sure that every moment means something, and that every moment, there's a purpose for it. And then you have to blend it all together without it looking like you're really focusing on it. That, to me, was the magic trick that was most difficult for the film [Buried].”

Mean Moments Together Film Purpose Difficult Magic Like You Tricks Buried Magic Tricks

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.”

People Mean Fantasy Written Magic University Realism Magic Realism

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I don't want to hold out false hopes that the - by some magic moment, that things will turn around in a couple months because they wouldn't, Charlie. I mean, and it's a big mistake to try and mislead people.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“If I do, I say so. That's the only way out of that. If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words "I don't know." I mean, there are certain basic principles, like the dignity of the individual and the individual's responsibility, and certain basic economic principles, like how when something costs less, more of it will be consumed... There are certain things that I feel pretty confident about.”

“People who are just starting out are always sort of coming to me for advice as the example of "independent girl," and lots of people ask, well, how did you get the booking agent or the national distribution or the tours? And I look at them like, "Good lord! Relax!" I mean, how I did it was to not care about it and to not even think about it for years and years. All I thought about was getting the next little gig in the little bar, and I get this sense that people want me to give them the secret formula or the magic trick to make it all happen.”

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Author:Ani DiFranco

“We live in such a hyperliterate world, soaked and saturated in writing: on our machines, on the streets, on our television screens. It's just that writing doesn't live in the boxes that it used to. The genie is out of the bottle. But that just means that the magic could be anywhere.”

World Writing Mean Magic

Author:Tim Carmody

“The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.”

People Wells Kind Mean Art Two Facts Seems Magic Bad Things Maintaining Good Art

Author:Charles de Lint

“I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.'”

People Thinking Way Mean Book Earth Cities Growing Up Growing Magic Jokes Series Guides Destroyed Colour Galaxy Really Mean Discworld Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Hitchhikers Guide

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.”

Thinking Knows Way Heart Mean Stills Young Magic Band Music Is Guitar Timeless Nostalgic Surf Instrumental Music

Author:John Zorn

“It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind.”

Kind Mean Book Real Sometimes Together Speak Vision Clear Magic Paper Wings Sweat Rip Thumbs

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“Forget your pain. It was what I said when I took Father's hand in the drawing room yesterday, what I repeated again tonight. But I didn't mean this. I must be careful. Yet what bothers me isn't the power of the magic or how, to a person, they've all accepted it as truth. No, what unsettles me the most is how much I want to believe it too.”

Want Believe Mean Persons Said Hands Pain Father Forget Rooms Magic Careful Drawing Accepted Yesterday Bother Tonight Be Careful

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.”

Knows Mean Ends Magic Divine Blue Brown Divinity Innate Rosy Indigo

Author:Tom Robbins

“Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.”

Mean Art Soul Feelings Magic Modern Harmony Chaos Myth Remedy Distracted Transforming

Author:Saul Bellow

“I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding.”

People World Kind Mean Has Beens Book Reason Feelings Romance Magic Painting Landscape Mundane Another World Portal

Book:Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation

Source: Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation

“The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means.”

People Knows Mean Magic Bunch Obsessed Funny Things

Book:City of Bones: TV Tie-in

Source: City of Bones: TV Tie-in

“Even though I didn't notice it while it was happening, I got reminded in ninth grade of a few things I guess I should have known all along. 1. A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes. 2. Always remember what it was like to be six. 3. Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins. And if you're reall lucky, maybe even a purple balloon.”

“Orion brightened. "I have an idea." "Yes?" said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained. "Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could search my naked body for some mysterious birthmark that means I am actually the prince of somewhere or other.”

Ifs Looks Mean Said Ideas Body Wish Magic Stones Naked Mysterious Grants Sparks Daring Artemis Fowl Artemis Fowl Orion Birthmarks

Author:Eoin Colfer

“I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.”

Mean Doe Moments Hands Certain Given Destiny Our Lives Magic Phrases Moments In Our Lives Magic Moments

Book:By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness

“There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day—bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.”

Writing Mean Said Two Hard Inspiration Secret Magic Talent Hard Work Ten Percent Hundred Tired Bored Persistence Weary Ninety Fever

Author:Marion Zimmer Bradley

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