Card Tricks Quotes

• Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more.

  Fanny Brice

  Love, Fun, Cards

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• "Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I`ll just show you this one." He showed me three.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Hate, Magic, Three

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “Collected Short Stories”, p.329, Random House

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• Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

  Daniel Handler

  Hilarious, Two, Three

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• My fave routine is The Roller Coaster. First of all it's a great way to get into a card trick, without stating it's a card trick. The routine is so brilliantly structured as to at first, intrigue, psychologically unsettle and then blow away your audience. An extra bonus is that it will hopefully create a welcome respite from bloody invisible deck routines. Worth the price of the book.

  Steve Valentine

  Book, Blow, Cards

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• It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery.

  Jean Hugard

  Magic, Cards, Levels

  Jean Hugard, Frederick Braué (2012). “Expert Card Technique”, p.573, Courier Corporation

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• That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions.

  Sherman Alexie

  Eye, Heart, Dark

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.147, Open Road Media

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• I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did magic tricks, cards tricks and I played the banjo.

  Steve Martin

  Order, Magic, Cards

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I had a point of view, which was different. I looked at magic as theater, as storytelling, and I tried to have an approach that was different from what they were doing. "How can I move people and really get them to dream with a card trick, with coin magic, or even a piece of stage magic?"

  David Copperfield

  Dream, Moving, Views

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.

  Sam Riley

  Three, Cards, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party--any party at all--until it is all over and the lightsare being put out?... I suppose that part of this mania for staying is due to a fear that, if I go, something good will happen and I'll miss it. Somebody might do card tricks, or shoot somebody else.

  Robert Benchley

  Party, Missing, Curiosity

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• Like sex drives, card tricks, and the weather, computers tend to be discussed in terms of results rather than processes, which makes them rather scary.

  Martin Mayer

  Sex, Weather, Scary

  Martin Mayer (1968). “All You Know is Facts”

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• There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Giving Up, Men, Hands

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• It's my object to be stared at like a dog that's just been shown a card trick.

  Bill Hicks

  Dog, Cards, Objects

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• I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

  Harry Anderson

  Magic, Cards, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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