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Teller
American
Entertainer
Born:
Feb 14
,
1948
Art
Just
Lie
People
Reality
You
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Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.
Teller
You
Yourself
Lie
Better
Fools
Nothing
Tell
Than
Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.
Teller
Time
Sometimes
Else
Spending
Magic
Someone
Something
More
Expect
Than
Just
Anyone
Anyone Else
Might
Reasonably
In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.
Teller
Life
You
Mistake
Reality
Decision
Important
Real Life
Think
Corner
Out
About
Step
Know
Most
Dead
Important Decision
Make
Make-Believe
Does
Real
Leave
Coming
Off
Begin
The Most Important
Where
Bus
Ever
Street
Street Corner
When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.
Teller
You
Lie
Own
Magician
Something
Becomes
His
Notice
Your
Lets
Generally, magicians don't know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like, 'Here I am holding a red ball.'
Teller
Stupid
Holding
Say
Magicians
Generally
Red
Like
Know
Ball
Am
Redundant
Crap
They Say
Here
The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look at each other and really confront that moment.
Teller
Conversation
Other
Intimacy
Kind
Silent
Onstage
Look
Forced
Up
Just
Confront
Really
Moment
Each
Thing
Shut
Shut Up
I'm more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad.
Teller
Sad
Beautiful
Apt
Something
More
Cry
Than
Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.
Teller
Art
You
Lie
People
Lying
Tell
Magic
Art Form
Where
Form
In America, magic has never been an important part of peoples' lives.
Teller
People
Important
Magic
Never
Part
Important Part
Been
America
Lives
Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.
Teller
Comedy
First
Teller
Penn
Magicians
Nobody
Foremost
Fan
Us
Team
Who
Thinks
I'm a lazy sod.
Teller
Lazy
Sod
Given my absolute druthers, I would certainly like to see that every part of my body is used for spare parts for science.
Teller
Science
Every
Would
See
Given
Absolute
Part
Like
Parts
Spare
Body
Used
Certainly
Neuroscientists are novices at deception.
Teller
Deception
Novice
Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.
Teller
Perception
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Magicians
Testing
Years
Controlled
Done
Human
Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.
Teller
Understanding
Digest
Magic
About
How
Information
Sensory
Manipulating
Then
Viewers
I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.
Teller
Life
My Life
Assumed
Spend
Performing
Always
Theaters
Happily
Little
If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.
Teller
You
Stage
Shakespeare
Directions
Gore
Read
Right
Violence
The Boy Scouts of America is no longer entirely what people think it is. Essentially, it has been hijacked by religious conservatives.
Teller
People
Think
Conservatives
Has-Been
Religious
Entirely
Longer
Hijacked
Boy
Been
America
Scouts
Essentially
To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.
Teller
Good
People
TV
Intrinsic
Point
Point Of View
Merely
Most
Being
View
Who
Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.
Teller
Great
Great Fun
Fun
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