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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The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.
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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 key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.
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It's a mad world. Mad as Bedlam, boy!
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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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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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But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.
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I'd better go into the house, and die and be a riddance!
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There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.
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Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.
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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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I only ask for information.
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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 was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.
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Marriage is like a formality for me.
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'David,' said Mr. Murdstone, 'to the young this is a world for action; not for moping and droning in.'
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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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Let sleeping dogs lie - who wants to rouse 'em?
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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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For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.