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Every time I get up on stage, start out on nothing, the audience has no expectations. And when we walk off stage, they're mesmerized, and they're completely sucked into the world we've created. That's when I get a rush.


James Scholfield

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JAMES BEATTIE Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
JAMES BEATTIE Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional ...
JAMES SUROWIECKI I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.
LEBRON JAMES Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the ...
JAMES BUCHAN We have two programs dealing with bulletproof vests, two different systems of actually distributing ...
JAMES LANKFORD For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.
CHERYL JAMES As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to ...
JAMES GLEICK The fact is, an America's Cup team is more than a sailing team. It's anywhere from sort of 8...
JAMES SPITHILL Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which c...
JAMES MADISON They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
JAMES STOCKDALE The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.
JAMES CHILES I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in m...
JAMES LAUGHLIN I have made things for Calvin Klein and other designers, and it's interesting to see the way eac...
JAMES TURRELL I don't consider myself to be incredibly confident, or really lacking in confidence. When you...
JAMES CORDEN The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsew...
JAMES CHANOS I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were deve...
JAMES SANBORN I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac...
JAMES GRAY