David Copperfield Quotes
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The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
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Never stop listening to your audience.
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I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.
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'It was as true,' said Mr. Barkis, 'as turnips is. It was as true,' said Mr. Barkis, nodding his nightcap, which was his only means of emphasis, 'as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.'
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The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.
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The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.
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But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.
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It's a mad world. Mad as Bedlam, boy!
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For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.
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My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.
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Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.
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A long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull altogether, my hearties, hurrah!
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There ain't no sort of orse that I ain't bred, and no sort of dorg. Orses and dorgs is some men's fancy. They're wittles and drink to me - lodging, wife, and children - reading, writing, and Arithmetic - snuff, tobacker, and sleep.
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There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.
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I'd better go into the house, and die and be a riddance!
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I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
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'The labour is so pleasant,'said Agnes,'that it is scarcely grateful in me to call it by that name.'
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I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.
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I only ask for information.
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There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
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Because, if it was so long ago, how could the people about him have made that mistake of putting some of the trouble out of his head, after it was taken off, into mine?
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I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
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What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.
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'David,' said Mr. Murdstone, 'to the young this is a world for action; not for moping and droning in.'