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I see people's need to dream, people's need to escape - you see it! That's why people come to comedy shows, that's why they come to your movies ... We're so needed in this world. Not as much as medicine , but to dream for a while.
David Copperfield
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David Copperfield
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 16
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Metuchen
New Jersey
David Seth Kotkin
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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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When I was a kid, people wanted to be an astronaut. Today, kids want to be famous, and that's totally the wrong approach. You have to have authenticity in what you're doing. You have to really care about the core message of what you're saying, and then everything else will fall into place.
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My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell.
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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 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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The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.
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All my TV shows are done live in front of audiences, and all the material I take on the road and travel with them test them for hundreds and hundreds of shows before I shoot them for TV.
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What you think is impossible in life actually is possible.
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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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I got to watch Frank Capra, in his eighties, in action. You read all the stories about Frank Capra fighting with the head of Columbia, Harry Cohn, It's my way or the highway. I got to watch that. He lambasted me, You cannot do this. You will fail. Finally, after another hour of conversation, I convinced him to help me write the speech.
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You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
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Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
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I'm really happy that I had the foundations of knowing where I came from.
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Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.
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I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants
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I'm a horrible karaoke singer.
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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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As I did more of that, I realized, Well, maybe I should do more magic.
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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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