David Copperfield Quotes
In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.
Quotes to Explore
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.
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The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.
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My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.
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Once I got to the OTC they knew more about the physical aspects of shooting, and knew which muscles were more important to have trained and geared us a program around that.
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.
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Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
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Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.
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February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.
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Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
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Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.
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I'm honestly kind of scared of horror films. My girlfriend always tries to expose them to me. Being in a scary movie and seeing all the fake blood and stuff definitely takes away from the magic and kind of humanizes scary movies to me now, though.
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A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.
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'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
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In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.
