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I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.
David Copperfield
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David Copperfield
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
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New Jersey
David Seth Kotkin
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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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I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.
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My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.
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Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
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Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.
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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.
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The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.
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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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You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
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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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I invented magic stuff it came very easily. Now, I sucked at everything else, but I was good at magic as a kid.
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I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants
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Pippin had an opening number called Magic to Do, and Jules Fisher, the brilliant lighting designer lit it. Tony Walton did all of the sets. As a kid I thought, Wow, I'm seeing onstage what a MGM musical would look like live. It was that good, and it was directed by Bob Fosse.
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I learned that there were two ways I could live my life: following my dreams or doing something else. Dreams aren't a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. When I dream, I believe I am rehearsing my future.
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Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks. And, in magic, it's not just the hard work of getting the words and attitude and point of view right you're taking an actual invention, making something over three or four years, and somebody can just take it.
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There was an old brochure for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with a quote from Robert Redford or someone, that said, You're only as good as you dare to be bad.
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I was published in Tarbell Course in Magic when I was 12.
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The most important thing is presentation.
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I have a bunch of islands in the Bahamas that we made into this amazing, magical place. And we have these birds they're trained to do certain things on the island, which is awesome. These toucans had a baby toucan, and the baby toucan, every hour that you'd look at this toucan, he would change.
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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.
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