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Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make you laugh, they make you think; the first time you met, they probably charmed the pants off of you - perhaps even literally. The odds are also that that spell didn't last.
Jeffrey Kluger

Time, Smart, Laugh

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
George Sand

Beauty, Eyes, Soul

I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.
Bil Keane

Parents, Started, Name

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to - act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande

Impossible, Act, Fail

On a shelf above my computer are five letters that spell out W-R-I-T-E. Just in case I forget why I'm there. I also have 'Wonder Woman' paraphernalia from when I wrote five issues of the comic, and pictures of my husband and kids.
Jodi Picoult

Husband, Forget, Woman

Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.
Jane Campion

Deep, Between, Reading

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.
Lev Grossman

Time, Special, Moment

It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.
Rob Sheffield

Power, Play, Away

Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
Nathan Fillion

Work, Care, Parents

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
Barry Hannah

Best, Through, Away

You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.
Humphrey Bogart

Until, Star, Name

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.
Roberto Benigni

Truth, Mother, Thought

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.
Tina Yothers

Good, Long, Said

I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.
Ozzy Osbourne

Stupid, Idiot, Dead

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
Patrick Swayze

Hope, Learning, Live

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.
Jennifer Weiner

Forget, Book, Write

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.
Tom Clancy

God, Person, Control

My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips.
Nicholas Hoult

Work, Good, Goes

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.
Kevin J. Anderson

Human, Words, Down

Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.
Kate Hudson

Bad, Worry, Name

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
Ornette Coleman

Saying, Thinking, Words

Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.
James Weldon Johnson

Experience, Heart, Human

There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it.
Michael Gambon

Freedom, Nice, Real

I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
Zane Grey

Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
Zane Grey

Writing, Blood, Sweat

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.
Tony Gilroy

Emotions, Break

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
Kevin Spacey

Movies, Different, Before

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.
Goldwin Smith

Power, Art, Trying

But with Interleaf I don't even have a spell program.
Bill Joy

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.
Lee Konitz

Cool, Mean, Trying

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