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There were really a bunch of old, old magic hobbyists at the time, some of them who actually had known [Harry] Houdini. You had to be 14 to go to these meetings, and he snuck me in at 12. It was glorious.

David Copperfield

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David Copperfield
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
Entertainer
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Metuchen
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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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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 really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.
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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 think the negative reinforcement really helped me in my very beginnings.
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I'm really happy that I had the foundations of knowing where I came from.
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I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.
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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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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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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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Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
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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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