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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
Illusions
Illusion
Dreams
Dead
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I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
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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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I was published in Tarbell Course in Magic when I was 12.
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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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Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, Ah, that's cool.
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I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
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For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.
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When the time came to say, Mom, I want to do this as a job, it was brutal. She was really against it. There were screaming matches. Some people are shut down by that and get defeated by it, and other people are empowered by the negativity. My father kind of encouraged me through that.
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I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants
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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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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!
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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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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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I got to watch Frank Capra, in his eighties, in action. You read all the stories about Frank Capra fighting with the head of Columbia, Harry Cohn, It's my way or the highway. I got to watch that. He lambasted me, You cannot do this. You will fail. Finally, after another hour of conversation, I convinced him to help me write the speech.
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I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.
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