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Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

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
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Illusions
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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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Normally, I do magic on the stage. But I can make magic credible and resonate through a TV screen.
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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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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.
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My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell.
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You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
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I see people's need to dream, people's need to escape - you see it! That's why people come to comedy shows, that's why they come to your movies ... We're so needed in this world. Not as much as medicine , but to dream for a while.
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I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.
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The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
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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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When you see me do a five-minute thing, there's been about two years of preparation behind that. You know, I find that's what it takes to really make it the level of quality I prefer.
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I'm a horrible karaoke singer.
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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.
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Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.
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There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.
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All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.
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Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.
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I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between comedians and magicians.
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The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
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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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