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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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If I was gay, why would I hide it?
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Everything that you'd see on The Ed Sullivan Show was at the Tannen's Magic. You'd think that if you could afford a trick like Doc Nixon's Dove Vanish, then you could be on The Ed Sullivan Show as an 8-year-old kid.
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Tommy Chong connects to the pipe a lot.
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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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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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I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants
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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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I'm really happy that I had the foundations of knowing where I came from.
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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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There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.
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You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
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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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I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
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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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I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.
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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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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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Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.
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For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.
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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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