David Blaine quotes
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“You don't get into magic...Magic gets into you.”
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“I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.”
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“To most magicians, cards themselves are marvels...For one thing, they feel special in your hand. Touching them, holding them, shuffling - the whole process is almost poetic. If you're in a room full of magicians and someone just mentions the word cards, within seconds, everyone is digging into their pockets and pulling out a deck of cards. It's one of the most amazing feelings ever.”
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“Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing”
-- David BlaineSource : Time Out Interview with Brett Martin, April 1, 1999.
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“In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.”
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“We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.”
-- David BlaineSource : "Illusionist plans 44 days in suspension" by Matt Wells, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2003.
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“As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others.”
-- David BlaineSource : "Is It Possible To Be Fearless?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 23, 2014.
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“As children we believe that anything is possible, the trick is to never forget it.”
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“Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.”
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“My only fear is the unknown.”
-- David BlaineSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. Its using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.”
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“I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesars, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did.”
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“I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldnt get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.”
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“My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.”
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“Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.”
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“I think great whites are the most beautiful and perfect creatures I've ever seen.”
-- David BlaineSource : Interview with Adam Kimmel, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.
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“I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.”
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“I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.”
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“I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.”
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“But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's the ones you don't see.”
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“Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.”
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“As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.”
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“I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.”
-- David BlaineSource : Interview with Adam Kimmel, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.
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“My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.”
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“Michael Jackson did something that no one else in history has managed - he connected with people on every level imaginable, all over the world. He seemed to speak to people at their very core and achieved the impossible. He reached people on a deep emotional level. And that is what any great artist or showman dreams of doing. That is why Michael Jackson was so special to me.”
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“As a Magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards is pretty simple: It's practice, it's training and it's experimenting while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. And that's what magic is to me.”
-- David BlaineSource : "How I held my breath for 17 minutes". TED Talk, www.ted.com. October 2009.
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“It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.”
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“I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.”
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“I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.”
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“Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation , followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance.”
-- David BlaineSource : Interview with Adam Kimmel, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.
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“I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.”
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“We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.”
-- David BlaineSource : Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.170, Pan Macmillan
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“As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.”
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“I do a lot of research on what people have done in the past.”
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“I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.”
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