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The most important thing is presentation.

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
Important
Thing
Presentation
Magic

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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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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 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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It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.
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As I did more of that, I realized, Well, maybe I should do more magic.
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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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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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Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
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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 think the negative reinforcement really helped me in my very beginnings.
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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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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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When I started doing magic as a kid, my parents had no problem.
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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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You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.
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I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
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