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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

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Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

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When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

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I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

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We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

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