"I always read what I write out loud,……" — Ricky Jay
"I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual."
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27 Quotes by Ricky Jay
Ricky Jay has 27 quotes on this site.
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If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.
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I grew up like Athena—covered with playing cards instead of armor—and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV…
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The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.
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Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.
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I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things…
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For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be…
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I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.
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I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.
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I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show…
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Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a…
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I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying…
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That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that…
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More Always Read Quotes
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
— Lord Byron
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I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer…
— Sandra Cisneros
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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
— Finley Peter Dunne
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O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and…
— Theodore Roethke
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I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV…
— Barbara Kruger
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I always read the Capitol as f—ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It’s…
— Lenny Kravitz
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I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us…
— Wynton Marsalis
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I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out…
— Robin Hobb
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I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian.…
— Georges Bizet
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I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy…
— Christopher Columbus
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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
— Dorothy Allison
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The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published…
— Neil Cross
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