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Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

David Copperfield

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David Copperfield
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
Entertainer
Film Actor
Hypnotist
Illusionist
Stunt Performer
Writer
Metuchen
New Jersey
David Seth Kotkin
Wonders
Magic
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In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.
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Everyone was talking about having airplanes disappear. And I said, Wait, wait, wait. That's what you like? I'd tell you a story about something like my girlfriend leaving me, and the magic was really hard. The airplane thing was comparatively easy, and people liked that thing? I realized at that moment, the power of the simple idea.
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I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.
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For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.
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Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.
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There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.
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I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.
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I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
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When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.
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The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
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When I started doing magic as a kid, my parents had no problem.
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My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.
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Watching people react, watching people be inspired, be taken on a journey, forgetting their problems, looking ahead in their own lives to doing impossible things. That's kind of what drives me, gives me a sense of focus.
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I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants
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Never take NO for an answer.
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I'm a horrible karaoke singer.
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What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.
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My job is to make people dream. Of course, there's a lot of technical stuff behind the scenes and a lot of hard work behind it, but I get to watch people see the result of that hard work and feel that wonder and feel that discovery, all the time.
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I had a point of view, which was different. I looked at magic as theater, as storytelling, and I tried to have an approach that was different from what they were doing. How can I move people and really get them to dream with a card trick, with coin magic, or even a piece of stage magic?
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You lose your sense of wonder the more you learn, right? When you go to film school and learn about moviemaking, you go to see movies and then only see where the lights are, where the cuts are, watching it from a technical basis, nodding your head, Oh, that was good. The feeling of surprise, the feeling of being transported is further away.
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