David Blaine Quotes
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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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As children we believe that anything is possible, the trick is to never forget it.
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I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.
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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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You don't get into magic. Magic gets into you.
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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 was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.
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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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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 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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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.
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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 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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We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.
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I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
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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.
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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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Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.
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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'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 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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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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My only fear is the unknown.
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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.
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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 practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. And that's what magic is to me.
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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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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 think great whites are the most beautiful and perfect creatures I've ever seen.
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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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