A musical sweeps you along, like you’re on a magic carpet ride of sorts. But you have to keep up. – Jefferson Mays
I don’t want to spoil the magic, but it’s a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It’s the nearest we’ll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more – you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters. – Kate Atkinson
One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane. – Laurell K. Hamilton
Love comes to everybody in many different ways. Attraction is always the first thing, no? But love must be more than that. It must be magic. – Julio Iglesias
In ‘Bayou Magic,’ I write about African goddess-mermaids who accompanied slaves to America. – Jewell Parker Rhodes
When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It’s a great feeling! – Kailash Kher
I’ve always been a fan of movies well before I got involved in the industry. The magic that it brings and being able to, I guess, escape your troubles, escape whatever is going on in life and getting to live in this moment and in the story and live in the lives of these characters. – Jovan Adepo
Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn’t matter. What matters is power. – Judith Tarr
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners. – Louisa May Alcott
I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don’t do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there’s a whole magic there. – Jeff Beck
I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don’t have any talent, ‘Well, neither do I.’ I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don’t have to have magic unicorn powers. – Kathleen Hanna
It’s all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for me, because that was the last time, punk rock or grunge rock, was the last time that passion ruled the airwaves. – James Marsters
I’m a geek. I love SF and fantasy. I listen to metal. I follow the Oakland Raiders and the Orlando Magic. – John Joseph Adams
I will admit, I once launched myself at Julie Garwood for a hug, hoping some of her magic would rub off on me… and I have fangirl crushes on Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Linda Howard, and Kresley Cole, among many others. – Lisa Kleypas
Once I’m on set, the only thing I’m really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I’ve done is sufficient, and I’m also trusting that I’ve also left room for magic. – Lorraine Toussaint
We don’t have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, I’d break up the banking system. – Kenneth C. Griffin
I think the greatest player I’ve ever played against was Magic Johnson. Next, was Larry Bird. Then, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. – John Salley
I have written two books that have to do with fairy godmothers: ‘The Magic Touch’ and ‘Wishing on a Star.’ – Jody Lynn Nye
During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions. – Lynn Abbey
Actors have a magic gene within them – I think they’re the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds – and it’s all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is. – Julian Sands
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl’s clothes off. – Raymond Chandler
Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps. – Peter Abrahams
