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Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it's the truest form of magic.
Criss Angel
You
People
Poverty
Looking
Would
Magic
About
Emotional
Emotional Level
He
Houdini
Truest
Escape
Escaping
Jacket
Form
Straight
Connected
Level
Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.
Criss Angel
Confidence
Business
Amazing
Build
Late
Tool
Has-Been
Entertainers
Magic
Martin
Johnny
Johnny Carson
Part
Steve
Steve Martin
Been
Child
Used
Show
Show Business
Profession
Many
Including
Now
Lives
Oldest
For me, it's been a treat to interact with authors who were publishing when I was a young reader. Judy Blume once gave me a pep talk at a writing conference. I had a short story featured in the same anthology as Beverly Cleary. Magic.
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Me
Writing
Treat
Young
Gave
Once
Pep
Magic
Featured
Had
Beverly
Talk
Reader
Judy
Were
Anthology
Been
Conference
Same
Authors
Short
Interact
Short Story
Story
Who
Publishing
I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.
Dan Colen
Possess
Magic
Something
Know
Disbelief
Always
Been
Any
Interested
Moments
It's a fine line between magic and science. In medieval times, science was magic.
Dan Fogler
Science
Fine
Fine Line
Magic
Between
Line
Times
Medieval
In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.
Danny DeVito
Love
You
Son
Father
Skin
Father And Son
Magic
He
Also
Tim
Surreal
Gets
Movie
Story
Fantastic
Really
Your
Things
I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' because anybody can do that; it's not interesting. They've got digital and the computer; it's not taking pictures, it's not magic - it's a picture done by committee.
David Bailey
Digital
Picture
Say
Magic
Computer
Layout
Taking
Pictures
Advertising
Because
Got
Committee
Done
Anybody
Want
Interesting
Bring
I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.
David Blaine
Back
Magic
Like
Years
Years Ago
Place
Used
Bring
I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.
David Blaine
Types
Out
Magic
Could
Put
Pieces
Always
Doing
Wanted
Really
Illusions
Things
I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.
David Blaine
Love
Library
Book
Remember
Building
Side
Out
Finding
Seeing
Magic
Scary
He
Head
Houdini
Looked
Him
Up
Get
Intense
Chained
Image
Started
Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.
David Blaine
Love
Art
You
Illusion
Slight
Magic
Know
Also
Well
Hand
Wonder
Than
Where
Different
Which
Create
Use
Showmanship
I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.
David Blaine
Love
Art
Myself
Consider
Magic
Performance
Separate
I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and it's - It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be.
David Blaine
Best
Training
Simple
Practice
Holding
Breath
Pain
Think
Pretty
Magic
Through
Pushing
Experimenting
Whether
While
Deck
Shuffling
Cards
Those who use 'Correlation is not the same as causation' as a magic incantation to dismiss all fact-using professions are fools holding a lit match in one hand and an open gas can in the other, screaming, 'One has nothing to do with the other!'
David Brin
Fools
Holding
Nothing
Other
Those
Correlation
Magic
Open
Match
Causation
Hand
Same
Screaming
Lit
Dismiss
Use
Who
Professions
Gas
Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
David Copperfield
Technology
Back
Magic
New
Days
Robert
Always
Hand
Hand-In-Hand
Walked
New Technology
Even
I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.
David Copperfield
Magic
Pushing
Always
Been
Interested
Forward
Magic is my paint.
David Copperfield
Magic
Paint
You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.
David Copperfield
Time
You
Yourself
Better
Kind
Magic
About
Feel
Period
Doing
Very
Short
Depending
Short Period
Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.
David Copperfield
Good
Me
Young
Has-Been
Easy
Ability
Magic
Something
Since
Come
Sure
Always
Been
Really
Why
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.
David Copperfield
Think
Range
Favorite
Kind
Able
Magic
Diverse
Perform
Been
Really
Fortunate
Hard
Things
I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.
David Knopfler
Time
Spiritual
Me
Every
Every Time
Worn
Enter
Magic
Never
Had
Studio
Stepping
Feel
Like
Contemplation
Always
Off
Familiarity
Place
Certain
I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.
David Liss
Saying
Culture
People
Once
Magic
More
Superstitions
Habits
Democratic
Am
Lot
Often
Different
Ordinary
While
Ordinary People
Customs
Separate
Show
Many
Popular
Whole
Popular Culture
Biologically
In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.
David Liss
Learning
People
Satan
Past
Books
Ways
Classic
Magic
Both
Could
Through
Generally
Powerful
Witch
Obtaining
Another
Get
Craft
In The Past
Either
Acquire
Mojo
Whom
Believed
Two
Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.
David Liss
Time
Trouble
Power
Practice
Those
Has-Been
Religions
Magic
Democratic
Also
Because
Practices
Around
Were
Been
Celebrated
Forever
Precisely
Inherently
Organized
Monarchs
Ever
Actually
Suggesting
The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.
David Mitchell
Life
Day
You
World
Strong
Mercy
Control
Bend
Resonates
State
Spend
Chunks
Giant
No Control
Inside
Magic
Laws
Over
How
Childhood
Flawed
Fantasy
Then
Your
Large
Deep
Beings
Novel
Desire
Alzheimer's is a disease for which there is no effective treatment whatsoever. To be clear, there is no pharmaceutical agent, no magic pill that a doctor can prescribe that will have any significant effect on the progressive downhill course of this disease.
David Perlmutter
Doctor
Will
Progressive
Significant
Magic
Clear
Course
Alzheimer
Pill
Effect
Effective
Disease
Whatsoever
Any
Which
Agent
Downhill
Prescribe
Pharmaceutical
Treatment
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