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‘You have to believe in yourself even when others don’t, or you won’t achieve anything.’
Vanished Into Thin Air
My 18 year old daughter got a job
as a magicians assistant
But one day came home
Sobbing
The magician had ‘too many hands’
“He’s like an octopus,” she said
and More Besides, but
She Wouldn’t Tell
And I delved into The Magic Circle
Learned some tricks
And armed with a rusty saw
Went to see the magician
And made him Vanish Into Thin Air
-Sue Young
I wrote this just lately but it is based on a real experience that happened twenty years ago. I was 26 and a colleague of mine was 18. We were both on a drama course and were given the opportunity to apply for a job as a magician’s assistant. I was going to apply but at the last moment had misgivings, can’t imagine why and I didn’t apply. The 18 year old girl applied and got the job very quickly and easily…
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‘Tried to write a startlingly new and original, brilliantly funny and thought-provoking piece for Python. Did this by staring out of the window, playing with paper clips and shutting my eyes for long periods,’
Michael Palin – Diary Entry- Friday 7th March 1980 Halfway To Hollywood. Volume Two. Diaries 1980-88
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‘If you don’t get the message that your selfish will is not the centre of the universe, you’re never gonna get anything sorted out.’
Steve Jones – ‘Lonely Boy’ Tales From A Sex Pistol
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‘Like bullies the whole world over, my mother did not mess with strength. She messed with weakness.’
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‘The elevator man smiled kindly at me and silently pressed the PH button after turning a key. He looked like a battered wife, dejected and sad, as though he coudn’t fight any longer and had just made peace wth his unhappiness.’
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‘When we’re kind to one person, it might actually be affecting around 16 people. Our behaviour had a three-stage knock-on, or ‘ripple’ effect, so when we help one person, that person then helps other people, who in turn helps others. The 3-Degree Ripple Rule.’
Dr. David Hamilton sourced from ‘Kindness, the little thing that matters most.’ by Jaime Thurston.
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‘I shall ask for brains instead of a heart, for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.’
‘I shall take the heart, for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.’
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‘Sometimes the most political act is being yourself.’
–George O’Dowd from ‘Take It Like A Man‘ The Autobiography Of Boy George, with Spencer Bright.
Things In My Head 