"The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds."
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"The Word is the Magic that Humans possess and misuse of the Word is Black Magic... Be Impeccable with Your Word."
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"We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life."
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"The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out."
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"Tony Bennett, you've helped us share the magic of San Francisco around the world."
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"I have a thing - I call it magic - but I feel like I can write stuff down in the middle of the night and wake up and it happens. I write what I want in my journal."
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"For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me."
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"The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?"
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"Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic!"
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"If you meet a cross-eyed person you must plunge into the grass, alongside the chilly ants, fish through the green fingernails and come up with the four-leaf clover."
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"I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten."
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"It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result."
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"This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one."
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"If we believe in magic, we'll live a magical life. If we believe our life is defined by narrow limits, we've suddenly made those beliefs real."
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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 show, doing magic."
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"Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why."
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"You're a wizard, Harry."
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"I do one take; I never overdubbed twice. I know there's stuff that isn't perfect, but it doesn't matter: Nothing is perfect, and there is a magic there that is undeniable because of the fact that we don't care about those things."
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"A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all."
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"I'm itching to see Usher & Shakira work their magic. And of course, Blake is so amazing! It was tough, but I went on my gut which was Adam."
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