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Illusionist Inspirational Quotes (340)

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Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.
Derren Brown
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For one of my specials, I said, I'm going to make an airplane disappear. Okay! And the next day, everything went crazy - it was like breaking the internet before the internet.
David Copperfield
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My father kind of encouraged me through that. Exactly,[work] not as an actor, obviously, but as someone in show business that had some success. He told me to live the impossible. Live the impossible!
David Copperfield
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I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
David Copperfield
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[ Gil Cates] said, You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic.
David Copperfield
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I think that I am willing to risk my life in order to have more freedom.
Penn Jillette
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'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.
Penn Jillette
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Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
David Copperfield
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We celebrities are desperate pigs.
Penn Jillette
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There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.
Penn Jillette
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What you think is impossible in life actually is possible.
David Copperfield
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So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars amen.
M. C. Escher
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I started as a ventriloquist, a very bad ventriloquist. And people saw my lips moving and it was ridiculous, so finally I decided I'd better change my occupation.
David Copperfield
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Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
Penn Jillette
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I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of country western music, and you can't really be a fan of jazz without listening to a lot of music that's religious.
Penn Jillette
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The medium is not the message - the message is the message.
Penn Jillette
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This I believe: I believe there is no God.
Penn Jillette
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It's only the losers named Dave that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think. They're named Dave.
Penn Jillette
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For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
David Copperfield
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I am often dishonest in my techniques ... I happily admit to cheating, it's all part of the game. I hope some of the fun for the viewer comes from not knowing what's real and what isn't
Derren Brown
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Fear is the politicians dance partner.
Penn Jillette
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Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
David Copperfield
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If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
Penn Jillette
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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
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