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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.
David Copperfield
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David Copperfield
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
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David Seth Kotkin
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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 discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.
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For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.
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The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
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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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The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
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Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.
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My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell.
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Pippin had an opening number called Magic to Do, and Jules Fisher, the brilliant lighting designer lit it. Tony Walton did all of the sets. As a kid I thought, Wow, I'm seeing onstage what a MGM musical would look like live. It was that good, and it was directed by Bob Fosse.
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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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It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.
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I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
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Never take NO for an answer.
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I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.
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My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.
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