"My father was the Formica King of Long……" — Ricky Jay
"My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India."
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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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I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds…
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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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More Bengal Quotes
This quote is filed under Bengal Quotes,
one of 19 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We'll all see through Mourinho. We'll find out he's just a Bengal lancer.
— Eamon Dunphy
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The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of…
— Qurratulain Hyder
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to…
— Jan Gehl
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The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately…
— Swami Vivekananda
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See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the…
— Herman Melville
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The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp…
— Pranab Mukherjee
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The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.
— Robert Trout
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In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I…
— Sunil Gangopadhyaya
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My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns.…
— Satyajit Ray
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