Marco Tempest Quotes

• Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

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  Art, Real, Lying

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• The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Loss

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• One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

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  Keys, Quality, Stories

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• Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.

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  Interesting, Done, Groups

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• Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Reality

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• We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

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  Cheer, Motivation, Inspiration

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• About three years ago, I started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness to create new digital tools for magic - tools that could eventually be shared with other artists to start them off further on in the process and to get them into the poetry faster.

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  Exercise, Technology, Artist

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• The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.

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  War, Romance, Deception

  "The magic of truth and lies (and iPods)". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2011.

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• Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.

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  Magic, Important, Stories

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• Everything I did, I did for mankind.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Mankind

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