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I came across the idea of running towards the things that frighten you. Once you go and do it, you realise that the fear of it is far more powerful than actually doing it. Derren Brown

You Fear Once Running More Idea Powerful Towards Doing Came Go Frighten Than Realise Far Across Actually Things

That was how I started, as a hypnotist. But I didn't like the kind of gigs I was being offered. I didn't want to embarrass people. Derren Brown

People Embarrass Kind Gigs Like How Offered Being Want Started

That's how I lived for 10 years in Bristol after graduating. I just stayed in my student flat and paid very little rent. It was lovely, and part of me still misses that very lazy lifestyle. I was known as the magician on the street, and I used to dress a little eccentrically in a cloak. Derren Brown

Me Stayed Dress Magician Lifestyle Student Lazy Part Misses Known Rent How Still Years Cloak Very Just Graduating After Flat Lovely Little Paid Used Lived Street Bristol

If you aim to be controversial for the sake of it you'd end up with a very thin and meaningless show. Derren Brown

You Aim Sake End Up Very Controversial Meaningless Show Thin

There was something about me even at an early age that enjoyed charming and manipulating. Derren Brown

Me Age About Something Charming Manipulating Even Enjoyed Early Early Age

I wore a cloak for many years, I had long hair, I may have had a drop earring for a week and I fancied myself as a philosopher poet but was somewhere more in the gay female leisure pirate. Derren Brown

For a long time, I couldn't just sit and have a conversation with people at a table without showing them a trick. I thought you just had to impress, it was about impressing, which of course is what you do if you don't feel very impressive. Derren Brown

I love touring, more than anything. Doing the stage show is a more enjoyable process than TV. There are no safeguards but the payoff is the wow factor. Derren Brown

Love Stage TV Wow More More Than Anything Factor Touring Safeguards Doing Than Anything Process Show Payoff Enjoyable

Psychic, illusionist... I'm just doing the things that I find interesting and worthwhile. Derren Brown

Psychic Worthwhile Find Doing Just Interesting Things

Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art. Derren Brown

Art Childish Magic Both Vaudeville Cheap Feet Dishonesty Planted Therefore

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it. Dick Cavett

Life Music Heart My Life Wish More Had Brain Goes Straight

A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see. Dick Cavett

Man Tough See Tough Thing Weeping Grown Grown Man Thing

I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy. Dick Cavett

Guests Like Edgy Get Gets Going Ice Rough Thin

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training. Dick Cavett

Art Training Years Requiring Teaching Profession

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. Dick Cavett

Censorship Word Mind More Dirty Feeds Itself Than Four-Letter

I think I'd be pretty easy to write for. Dick Cavett

Think Easy Pretty Write

I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy. Dick Cavett

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? Dick Cavett

Comedy Cause Television Does Much Streets

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. Dick Cavett

Funny Me Misunderstanding Intellectual Label

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images. Dick Cavett

Better Mind Will Medium Pleasant Television Easy Than Listen Automatically Which Much Your Radio Filled Ever Images

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