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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
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
Conrad Veidt
Picture
Earthquake
Magician
Real
Hit
Just
Middle
Hollywood
Third
I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.
Criss Angel
Art
Humanity
People
Word
Say
Would
Would-Be
People Say
Magician
Student
Term
Like
Reaction
Because
Felt
Came
Up
Wanted
Psychology
Really
Many
Why
Basically
Coin
I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.
David Blaine
Guess
Saw
Out
Trick
Magician
Island
How
Doing
Go
Hang
Boardwalk
Rope
Fascinated
Started
My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.
David Pogue
Believe
Teen
Teen Years
Magic
Magician
Something
Through
Like
Became
Amateur
Years
Did
Interest
Shows
There's something a bit embarrassing about saying you're a magician. It immediately suggests all these horrendous cliches, let alone that you're a grown-up doing a child's job.
Derren Brown
Alone
Saying
You
Job
Bit
Immediately
Embarrassing
Horrendous
About
Magician
Something
Cliches
Doing
Child
Grown-Up
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
Nature
Experience
Matter
Matters
Sold
Complex
Magic
Magical
Magician
He
Highly
Got
How
Hand
Person
Same
Just
Whether
Using
Cards
Two
When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.
Doug Henning
College
Before
Folk
Folk Singer
Magician
Like
Singer
Being
Dylan
Bob
Bob Dylan
Thing
I beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
You
Wave
Magic
Magic Wand
Magician
Beg
Wand
Just
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
Gore Vidal
Matter
Magic
Magician
Mystery
Until
Himself
His
Effects
Very
Did
Artist
Public
View
Who
Kept
Recently
My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.
Hans Rosling
Best
Me
School
Patient
Best Friend
Tried
Magician
He
Failed
Got
Were
Friend
Taught
Then
Shown
Medical
Medical School
I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
Ira Glass
Think
Kid
Kids
Jobs
Magician
Fired
Parties
Am
Been
Shop
Ice
Ice Cream
Cream
Radio
Even
Ever
Early
I'm a magician. A lot of people don't know that I've won awards. I used to do big stage shows.
Jonathan Scott
People
Big
Stage
Magician
Know
Lot
Won
Used
Shows
Awards
Once people enjoy what I do, I don't mind if they call me a magician or an illusionist or a hypnotist, entertainer, comedian, whatever people want to call me. I'm comfortable with all of the above, so I don't really mind at all what people want to call me.
Keith Barry
Me
People
Mind
Whatever
Enjoy
Once
Entertainer
Magician
Above
Comedian
Call
Comfortable
Want
Really
One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.
Laurell K. Hamilton
You
Rules
Trick
Magic
Magician
Writer
Never
Never Explain
Like
How
Lot
Explain
Then
Turns
Works
Mundane
I'm doing everything I can to take the magician out of the equation of magic.
Michael Carbonaro
Everything
Out
Magic
Magician
Take
Equation
Doing
When you're learning how to do magic, the first rule is 'never reveal a secret.' In a way, by telling someone I'm a magician, it kind of gives away the best secret of all... How interesting to take the magician out of the equation of a magic show.
Michael Carbonaro
Best
You
Learning
First
Secret
Rule
Way
Out
Kind
Telling
Magic
Magician
Someone
Gives
Take
Never
Reveal
Equation
How
Interesting
Show
Away
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