David Copperfield Quotes
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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 need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.
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I am a lone lorn creetur... and everythink goes contrairy with me.
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My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
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When I lived at home with papa and mama, I really should have hardly understood what the word meant, in the sense in which I now employ it, but experientia does it, - as papa used to say.
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Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
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I live on broken wittles - and I sleep on the coals.
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It’s only my child-wife!
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The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
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It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.
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Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.
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I ate umble pie with an appetite.
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I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
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It's really hard to think of one kind of magic as a favorite. I've been really fortunate in that I've been able to perform such a diverse range of things.
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Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
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You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
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I assure you she's the dearest girl!
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I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show.
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I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible.
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Physical rehab is often very, very hard work.
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Accidents will occur in the best regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances the-a-I would say, in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.
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We all possess the need to dream.
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I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.