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If I was gay, why would I hide it?

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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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It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.
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For me, I was watching Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Orson Welles, Victor Fleming movies, and I said, I want to tell stories like that. I want to move people like that. But I'm good at magic, so what am I going to do? So I started using magic for the right reasons - to get the girl.
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I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.
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As I did more of that, I realized, Well, maybe I should do more magic.
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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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The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
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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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I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants
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I'm really happy that I had the foundations of knowing where I came from.
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The most important thing is presentation.
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Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.
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What you think is impossible in life actually is possible.
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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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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 was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
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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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All my TV shows are done live in front of audiences, and all the material I take on the road and travel with them test them for hundreds and hundreds of shows before I shoot them for TV.
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But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.
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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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