David Copperfield Quotes
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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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No, I think marriage is a great thing.
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'Never,' said my aunt, 'be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.'
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Let sleeping dogs lie - who wants to rouse 'em?
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I feel it more than other people.
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If I was gay, why would I hide it?
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For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
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I am well aware that I am the umblest person going... My mother is likewise a very umble person. We live in a numble abode, Master Copperfield, but have much to be thankful for.
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Trifles make the sum of life.
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I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.
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It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.
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I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time.
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A man must take the fat with the lean.
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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.
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What a world of gammon and spinach it is, though, ain't it!
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I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.
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I never will desert Mr. Micawber.
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But Vegas is really my first home.
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Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
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I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.
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You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.
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It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.