Magician Quotes - Page 5

• perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.

  Anais Nin

  Artist

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• How you prepare for a role is entirely your business in my point of view. There is little enough mystery anymore left in the world in the part of our profession, which should be clouded in mystery because it isn't in the public. You don't want the magician to show his tricks or how he did them do you? So I do think that is a very private thing that we actors should protect ourselves from.

  Christopher Plummer

  Thinking, Views, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, I am simply a bird in their midst.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Bird, Trying, Midst

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• It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Errors, Wizardry

  Dean Koontz (2014). “Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)”, p.154, Bantam

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• What magicians we are, turning darkness into light, transforming invisible atoms into dazzling theater of the world, pulling objects, (people as well as rabbits) out of secret microscopic closets, turning winter into summer, making a palmful of moments disappear through time's trap door.  We learned the methods so long ago that they're unconscious, and we've hypnotized ourselves into believing that we're the audience, so I wonder where we served our apprenticeship.  Under what master magicians did we learn to form reality so smoothly that we forgot to tell ourselves the secret?

  Jane Roberts

  Summer, Believe, Winter

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• Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

  Ouida

  Kind, Familiarity, Ugliness

  Ouida (1890*). “Pascarel. Princess Napraxine”

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• The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Produce, Dazzling

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I still go through stages of wanting to try other trades. When I was young I thought I'd be a magician. And then a cartoonist. Or a professional roller-skater. But there wasn't much support for those on career day.

  Jason Mraz

  Careers, Support, Trying

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• There is not a physicist in the world who can perceive when a parlor magician palms off playing-cards.

  Charles Fort

  World, Cards, Parlor Games

  Charles Fort (2014). “New Lands”, p.60, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.

  Mircea Eliade

  Men, Medicine, Sick

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• When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!

  Kailash Kher

  Feelings, Magic, Enjoy

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• I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light.

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Writing, Dark, Light

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• How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.

  Susanna Clarke

  Book, Office, Asking

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.544, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It was reported that the New York Knicks have won all 12 of the home games attended by magician David Blaine. A spokesman for the Knicks said, 'if this is what it takes to win, it's not worth it.'

  Tina Fey

  Funny, New York, Home

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• I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Movie, Thinking, Fog

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• Science and technology were often used by [the magician of old], even before they came into the marketplace on a mass basis. For example, prior to the moving picture going into theatre, magicians were using the technique of images in motion as illusions in their shows. At that time the process was so new, an audience perceived it as magic. Also in the early stages of holograms magicians would use these images to baffle and mystify their fans. Hence, you always need to stay one step ahead of the technology game to "WOW" the audience.

  David Copperfield

  Moving, Technology, Games

  Source: www.tampabayinformer.com

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• Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.

  Criss Angel

  Mother, Kids, Islands

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• I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

  Roberto Benigni

  Important, Lions, Circus

  "The Crisis of Crowding: Quant Copycats, Ugly Models, and the New Crash Normal". Book by Ludwig B. Chincarini, 2012.

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• Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Eye, Science, Years

  John Maynard Keynes (2015). “The Essential Keynes”, p.516, Penguin UK

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• It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

  David Blaine

  Math, Magic, Cards

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Great liars are also great magicians.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Liars, Lying

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• Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it goes so far beyond cool. All I can think is 12 magicians, two carnies.

  Penn Jillette

  Gun, Night, Thinking

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• Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on.

  Jamy Ian Swiss

  Giving, Magic, Looks

  "The real work" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.

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• Haven't you done enough for a lifetime? Think about it - two power - crazed magicians killed, a hundred power - crazed magicians saved.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Thinking, Two, Done

  Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• There are only two kinds of people in the world, suckers and people that can be had. Everyone can be had, but a sucker will always bet you $50 that he can't be had. Maybe magicians are around to remind us we can all be had, so we don't become suckers.

  Eric Sevareid

  Two, People, Magic

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