"The magician to some degree is trying to……" — Alan Moore
"The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws."
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253 Quotes by Alan Moore
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Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a…
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If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see…
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It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly…
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You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that,…
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The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind
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On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I…
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It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a…
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It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what…
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By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
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Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's…
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I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is…
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The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it.…
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More Controlled Quotes
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national…
— Wendell Berry
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You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and…
— Jello Biafra
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Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.
— Conrad Black
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For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders…
— Conrad Black
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
— Manolo Blahnik
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The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all…
— Alvin Ailey
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision…
— Dan Brown
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
— James L. Buckley
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I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun!…
— Carol Burnett
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
— Taylor Caldwell
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Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than…
— Margaret Cho
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
— Jackie Chan
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