David Copperfield Quotes

What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

David Copperfield

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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.

  

  David Copperfield
  • Emotional
  • Magic