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Derren Brown
Derren Brown
English Entertainer
Born: Feb 27, 1971
About Just Me People Think You
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I do always look back and feel faintly embarrassed by anything I've done in the past. I think that's not a terrible thing, because if you don't do that, how are you growing and moving forward? Derren Brown
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I was a Christian when I was young and didn't know any better. Derren Brown
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Magic's quite a solitary pursuit - a thing you can do for hours and hours, getting better and better. Derren Brown
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And the nature of magic is all in the person's experience. Whether the magician is using a highly complex sleight of hand or he's just got two cards that are the same, it doesn't matter: it's how it's sold and how magical it is for the person that matters. Derren Brown
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If people have very big personalities, I find myself feeling I have nothing to offer. Derren Brown
Myself People Feeling Big Nothing Find Very Offer Personalities
I was part of a very uncool group. It was a group that liked classical music. They were known as the Music School Gang or, less charitably, the Poof Gang. Derren Brown
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Sexuality is often tied in with something you feel you lack in yourself and look for in others. Derren Brown
You Yourself Others Sexuality Something Feel Look Tied Lack Often
Hypnosis is just suggestibility; you see it in certain people. Derren Brown
You People See Hypnosis Just Certain
A magic trick of any sort works because you tell yourself a story about what you see. And politicians use this all the time in their own way by throwing a load of statistics at you when things don't quite follow and then saying, 'So therefore blah,' and you believe that 'blah' thing because of the confusion that's come before. Derren Brown
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If you do magic, it's the quickest most fraudulent route to impressing people. Derren Brown
You People Fraudulent Magic Most Route
People are just passively accepting what you tell them, so if you are on TV there is that greater responsibility to be true. Derren Brown
You People Responsibility Be True Tell TV True Greater Accepting Passively Just Them
I think you can be sceptical, and still do things that are in a joyful way, and ultimately you are on stage entertaining. If you let your philosophy get too much in the way of that, then you are failing as an entertainer. Derren Brown
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I wasn't terribly sociable. I had two or three friends at school. I drew things, played with Lego. My parents left me free to do whatever made me happy. Derren Brown
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Kindness and compassion aren't political qualities even though they get politicized. Derren Brown
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People often think that you get the most of everything from having your face on the screen but its really, like musicians, when you hit the road. It's also where the most fun is, the adrenaline of it every night, giving this incredibly well rehearsed charismatic version of yourself every night and people hopefully loving you. Derren Brown
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It's a controlling thing on stage - you're directing the action, getting people to play their role. In real life, I take being kind and nice seriously, so the last thing I'd ever want to be is that weird, controlling, manipulative character. Derren Brown
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I'm probably more persuasive than the next person if I want to be, but do I want to be? In my head, I just don't go there. Derren Brown
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We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives - things we've learnt since childhood that we don't even consciously realise are going on. Derren Brown
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The big, fun, ambitious ideas tend to come out of the frustration of talking for too long about the smaller, weaselly ones. Derren Brown
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I think it's important to be sort of nice. Derren Brown
Important Nice Think Sort
In my 20s, I just had to be the centre of attention all the time. I was quite eccentric. Derren Brown
Time Eccentric Had Attention Quite Just Centre
I had no sense of 'Gotta work hard to be famous.' Never have done, and still don't. Derren Brown
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The Stoics appear during a huge time of constant wars and real political strife. And it became very popular, I think, because it's a way of distancing yourself from strife and keeping your centre of gravity within you. Derren Brown
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I really liked 'Heist,' and that seems to be a popular favourite, but I think my personal favourite was 'Hero at 30,000 ft,' about the guy who ended up landing the aeroplane. Derren Brown
Hero Think Favourite About Seems Guy Liked Up Personal Ended Landing Really Who Popular
I'll sometimes go a week or two without tweeting, and then when I'm in the mood, tweet loads, and clog up people's in-boxes. It's a moment when you feel like sharing something. Derren Brown
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If something's stressful I've always tended to just find ways of avoiding it rather than rising to meet it or try to change it. Derren Brown
Change Try Meet Ways Find Something Rising Rather Always Than Just Avoiding Stressful
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