#magic

…Magic is often a tricky thing. Often it is explainable. People fly through the air in planes and live underwater in submarines. Plants grow within weeks and cities operate and sustain millions of people. A person can talk to practically anyone almost anywhere around the world instantly. People’s images are transported by photo in the time it takes to press a button. Dinosaurs seem real, huge apes exist, and other worlds are a movie ticket away. ↗

— Obert Skye

#movies

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before. ↗

— Brian Eno

#before #called #combination #established #fairly

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#dance #foolish #full #get #i

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

— Sonia Braga

#alive #being #keep #magic #you

Art is a sense of magic. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#magic #sense

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

— Kenneth Branagh

#imaginative #invitation #magic #many #plays

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

— Susie Bright

#doing #doing the right thing #else #like #made

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

— James Broughton

#built #eight #had #i #lantern

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#burn #cities #city #country #destroy

Magic is at the core of myths. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#magic #myths