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Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.

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
Physical
Often
Hard
Work
Rehab

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I had a point of view, which was different. I looked at magic as theater, as storytelling, and I tried to have an approach that was different from what they were doing. How can I move people and really get them to dream with a card trick, with coin magic, or even a piece of stage magic?
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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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I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.
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My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.
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I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.
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It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.
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My job is to make people dream. Of course, there's a lot of technical stuff behind the scenes and a lot of hard work behind it, but I get to watch people see the result of that hard work and feel that wonder and feel that discovery, all the time.
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For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.
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[ Gil Cates] said, You've got a point of view with your magic. There's this comedy to it, there's drama. You're telling stories with magic.
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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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Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks. And, in magic, it's not just the hard work of getting the words and attitude and point of view right you're taking an actual invention, making something over three or four years, and somebody can just take it.
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Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!
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I love creating new things. It's kind of my job, it's what I do, and I really have fun with it.
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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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Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.
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No, I think marriage is a great thing.
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My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.
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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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The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
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