Magician Quotes - Page 2

• The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

  Ben Okri

  Magic, Attention, Common

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• Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.

  Al Gore

  Reality, Stakes, Deceived

  "Without a Trace". Book review of ‘The Sixth Extinction’ by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2014.

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• My Brain is the key that sets me free.

  Harry Houdini

  Freedom, Keys, Magic

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• Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.

  David Copperfield

  Lying, Thinking, Magic

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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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• All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.

  Eugene Burger

  Magic, Agents, Transformation

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• It is the duty of all magicians to give entertainment.

  John Henry Anderson

  Giving, Entertainment, Duty

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• Magicians are manipulating your consciousness. They are showing you something impossible. They're getting you to construct a narrative, which simply isn't true. So that means they know how to make you aware of certain things and blind to other things. What I'm hoping is that magic, this entertainment vehicle that has been around for a long time, will give us a real insight into the deep mysteries of consciousness

  Richard Wiseman

  Real, Mean, Long

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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 Blaine

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

  "Is It Possible To Be Fearless?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 23, 2014.

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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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• Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Mean, Imagination

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Magician: A Novel”, p.67, The Floating Press

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• For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.

  Joseph Dunninger

  Atheist, Believe, Knowledge

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• The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers.

  Harry Houdini

  Believe, Pieces, Facts

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• Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.

  Marco Tempest

  Magic, Important, Stories

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• A Magician is not a Magician because he knows tricks, but because he knows Magic - the principles, the fundamentals.

  Harlan Tarbell

  Magic, Principles, Fundamentals

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• A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician.

  Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

  Magic, Actors

  Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Louis Hoffmann (2011). “Secrets of Conjuring and Magic: Or How to Become a Wizard”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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• Magic is something that seems like it goes against how the world works and its us magicians job to be doing that.

  Jerry Andrus

  Jobs, Magic, World

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• I've never thought of myself as a great beauty -- just a great magician.

  Sharon Stone

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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.

  David Blaine

  Hands, Touching, Feelings

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• Most magicians are afraid of magic.

  Max Maven

  Magic

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• Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience.

  Dai Vernon

  Believe, Moving, Magic

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• Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Science, Hands

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• What’s the point of being a magician if you can’t wave your wand and make the people you care about feel better?

  Rick Riordan

  Feel Better, People, Care

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.66, Penguin UK

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• There was a guy named Ed Mishell. He was this grandfatherly guy who did all the illustrations for the catalogs and reviewed magic effects for the magic magazines, so all of the magic dealers would send him magic effects for free-it was a great deal. His basement was full of this stuff. He took me under his wing, and he would sneak me into the Society of American Magicians meetings in New York. It's the world's oldest magic organization.

  David Copperfield

  New York, Illustration, Wings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.

  Penn Jillette

  Comedian, Wanted

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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