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I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it's only temporary.

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.

You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.

Art is a sense of magic.

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

Movies are like magic tricks.

Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.