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“Howard “Sandman” Sims, the “exterminator” from the amateur night at the Apollo Theater, also claimed to have inspired the gong.”
― Emily Nussbaum, Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

“If there is a reason that explains the success of all the greats,” said the Spanish master Arturo De Ascanio, channeling Polonius, “it is that they have learned to know themselves and have thus been able to exploit and take advantage of their own personality.”
― Alex Stone, Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind