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I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

David Blaine
illusion magic pieces

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

David Blaine
magic math cards

Of all the memorable phrases that have been minted and mobilised to describe modern British royalty, 'constitutional monarchy' is virtually the only one which seemes to have neither been anticipated nor invented by Walter Bagehot. It was he who insisted that 'a princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and as such it rivets mankind'; and he who warned that the monarchy's 'mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic'.

David Cannadine
magic phrases memorable
The real secret of magic lies in the performance. by David Copperfield

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

David Copperfield
magic real lying

It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.

David Copperfield
magic special moving
Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder. by David Copperfield

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

David Copperfield
magic human-nature wonder
The most important thing is presentation. by David Copperfield

The most important thing is presentation.

David Copperfield
presentation magic important

Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.

David Copperfield
magic lying thinking
It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secre... by David Copperfield

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

David Copperfield
ethics magic secret

From the very beginning, I studied acting, directing, lighting, dance and movement. I didn't rely on just the magic to take place. It's a shame that a lot of magicians just rely on the trick itself and they have no other abilities. They get away with the wonder factor, and I don't think that's enough. It's great, but it's not enough.

David Copperfield
magic acting thinking
You have to learn certain skills to present magic. by David Copperfield

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

David Copperfield
magic certain skills

You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.

David Copperfield
magic feel-better kind
I was teaching magic at NYU when I was 16. by David Copperfield

I was teaching magic at NYU when I was 16.

David Copperfield
nyu magic teaching

You'd go in the magic shop [as an 8-year-old ], and you'd walk up to the magicians doing stuff, and they'd turn their back on you. "Oh my gosh, I wish they would accept me." It really lit a fire. I really wanted to succeed.

David Copperfield
magic fire years
I was published in Tarbell Course in Magic when I was 12. by David Copperfield

I was published in Tarbell Course in Magic when I was 12.

David Copperfield
courses magic
Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder. by David Copperfield

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

David Copperfield
magic wonder opportunity

It's really hard to think of one kind of magic as a favorite. I've been really fortunate in that I've been able to perform such a diverse range of things.

David Copperfield
magic able thinking

There were really a bunch of old, old magic hobbyists at the time, some of them who actually had known [Harry] Houdini. You had to be 14 to go to these meetings, and he snuck me in at 12. It was glorious.

David Copperfield
houdini magic bunch

I really wanted to succeed. I wanted to be accepted. I read every magic book that I possibly could, studied every move, and by the time I was 12, they really accepted me, they embraced me.

David Copperfield
magic book moving
Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, "... by David Copperfield

Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, "Ah, that's cool."

David Copperfield
magic made kids
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