Magic Tricks Quotes

• Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.

  Jeff Bridges

  Real, Light, Clothes

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• You don't get into magic. Magic gets into you.

  David Blaine

  Magic, Illusionists, Entertainers

  Interview with Clark Collis, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2002.

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• Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.

  Michael Caine

  Magic, Ordinary, Three

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  Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

  Roald Dahl

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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• The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspiring, Book, Secret Places

  Roald Dahl (2017). “Billy and the Minpins (illustrated by Quentin Blake)”, p.77, Penguin UK

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• In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.

  Dai Vernon

  Magic, Today, Used

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• Movies are like magic tricks.

  Jeff Bridges

  Movie, Magic, Actors

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• That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

  Charles de Lint

  Magic, Invisible, Stills

  "Dreams Underfoot : The Newford Collection". Book by Charles de Lint, 2003.

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• Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Magic, Promise

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• Of course, in all magic tricks theres a secret.

  Lene

  Magic, Secret, Tricks

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• The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

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• If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.

  Larry Niven

  Magic, Should, Tricks

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• I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!

  David Copperfield

  Girl, Class, Magic

  Source: www.tampabayinformer.com

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• Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

  Tom Robbins

  Believe, Humor, Government

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.82, Bantam

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• One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.

  Penn Jillette

  Magic, Sometimes, Disaster

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.

  Martin Gardner

  Magic, Trying, Doe

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  And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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• Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.

  Merlin Mann

  People, Creative, Magic

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• Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

  Tennessee Williams

  Magic, Fleeting, Eternity

  Tennessee Williams (1978). “Where I Live: Selected Essays”, p.52, New Directions Publishing

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• Disappearing act? That's a magic trick, isn't it? I like magic tricks!

  Kate Bush

  Magic, Disappear, Tricks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.

  Nicolas Cage

  Boys, Thinking, Magic

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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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• Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

  Roald Dahl

  Eye, Secret Places, Magic In The World

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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• A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

  Neil Gaiman

  Couple, Heart, Magic

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• I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.

  Steve Martin

  Book, Men, Parent

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