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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.
David Copperfield
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David Copperfield
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
Entertainer
Film Actor
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Illusionist
Stunt Performer
Writer
Metuchen
New Jersey
David Seth Kotkin
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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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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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Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, Ah, that's cool.
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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 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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I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.
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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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Never take NO for an answer.
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All the lawyers and the business stuff is work, but actually creating stuff isn't work. It's good effort. It's hard work. But, it's not work. It doesn't feel like work because the result is very rewarding.
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It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.
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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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Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
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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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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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