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I think television defeats ventriloquism.

I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.

My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself.

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

Crises are harbingers of evolution.