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“If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Truth Quotes #Reality Quotes #Sound Quotes
“Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often, the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Art Quotes #Hands Quotes #Magic Quotes
“Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Jobs Quotes #Writing Quotes #Challenges Quotes
“Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Real Quotes #Lying Quotes #Magic Quotes
“Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Writing Quotes #Easier Quotes
“My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Kings Quotes
“I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very young. And the thing is I'm very comfortable on stage, so a large portion of my act did come from ad-libs.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Writing Quotes #Stage Quotes #Young Quotes
“I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Hands Quotes #Roots Quotes #Lists Quotes
“I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Thinking Quotes #Want Quotes #Directors Quotes
“In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Winter Quotes #Hands Quotes #Entertainment Quotes
“I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just interested.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Guy Quotes #Grandfather Quotes #Friendly Quotes
“Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes
“That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Use Quotes #Way Quotes #Becoming Quotes
“I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Kids Quotes #Parent Quotes #Lessons Quotes
“I grew up like Athenaâ€”covered with playing cards instead of armorâ€”and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Tv Shows Quotes #Magic Quotes #Age Quotes
“The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Art Quotes #Pain Quotes #Magic Quotes
“Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Art Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Support Quotes
“I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Magic Quotes
“I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Writing Quotes #Editors Quotes #Long Quotes
“For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Magic Quotes #Lovely Quotes #Would Be Quotes
“I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Century Quotes #20th Century Quotes
“I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Ideas Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Radio Quotes
“I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Television Quotes
“Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Sunday Quotes #Chinese Quotes #World Quotes
“The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us.”
-- Ricky Jay

#Book Quotes #Past Quotes #May Quotes

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