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All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.
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Born:
Mar 5
,
1955
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David
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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
Ben Okri
Politician
Our
Draw
Magician
Both
Attention
Doing
Common
Much
Really
Away
Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
Orson Welles
Good
Me
You
Director
Gentleman
Few
Magician
Onstage
Writer
Name
Am
Welles
Ladies
Producer
Radio
Many
Appear
Evening
Actor
Why
Orson Welles
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
Charles Dickens
Home
Strong
Word
Stronger
Spirit
Magician
Strongest
Spoke
Name
Answered
Than
Ever
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
Edward Steichen
Nature
Light
Plants
Trees
Magician
Had
Stems
Knew
Toward
Reached
Course
Real
Coming
Up
Itself
Branches
Realize
Roots
Bark
Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.
Adam Grant
Work
Me
Book
Tried
Insight
Intuitive
Magician
Counter
Study
Powerful
Reveals
How
Surprise
Unexpected
Taught
Being
Story
Turns
Your
Each
Element
Beliefs
Twist
Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.
Andy Dick
Time
People
Before
Stage
Christian
Other
Once
Bad
Pretend
Would
Pretended
One Time
Magician
Mentally
Wrong
Known
Comic
Go
Handicapped
Really
I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.
Ashton Kutcher
People
Think
Gave
Jobs
Magician
Guy
Know
Steve
Steve Jobs
Salesman
Up
Stood
Who
I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.
Blake Michael
Myself
Melting
Tricks
Some
Magician
Like
Learned
Forks
Really
Cool
I did a lot of magic shows growing up. My dad is a graphic designer so he helped me brand myself and create a logo. So I was just rollin' with the magician crowd for a while. But I was really young, 10 to 13, doing table magic and balloon animals at this Italian restaurant.
Borns
Myself
Me
Animals
Young
Restaurant
Table
Magic
Magician
Crowd
He
Doing
Balloon
Italian
Lot
Up
Brand
Did
Just
While
Create
Really
Graphic
Helped
Shows
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
Designer
I was a magician's assistant and had to go in the box that they put the swords through, and there's no trick to it. You literally have to dodge the swords.
Caroline Flack
You
Trick
Magician
Through
Had
Put
Box
Dodge
Go
Literally
Swords
Assistant
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