Magician Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Names, Gentleman, Directors

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• Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Work, Stones, Philosopher

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• I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

  Steve Martin

  Magic, Actors, Levels

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• 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, Real, Light

  Edward Steichen, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1963). “A Life in Photography”, Random House Value Pub

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• I always say that I love magic but I hate magicians. I like being fooled. If you wave your hands in front of my face and I think you're doing a trick, I'm easily impressed. If you pull a quarter out of my ear, I'm quite certain you're a wizard. But I don't like the way most magicians don't act like they're magical; they act like show business dicks.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hate, Thinking, Hands

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• In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.

  James G. Frazer

  Kings, Facts, Chiefs

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

  Charles Stross

  Land, Fantasy, Trilogies

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• Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.

  Susanna Clarke

  People, Doe, Complaining

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.416, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if you're going to portray a modern day magician, there's gotta be a little silliness.

  Jon Turteltaub

  Spiritual, Silly, Magic

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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.

  Marco Tempest

  Interesting, Done, Groups

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• An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.

  Domenico Gnoli

  Soul, Unnecessary, Makers

  Source: observer.com

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• I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!

  David Copperfield

  Girl, Class, Magic

  Source: www.tampabayinformer.com

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• You'd go in the magic shop [as an 8-year-old ], and you'd walk up to the magicians doing stuff, and they'd turn their back on you. "Oh my gosh, I wish they would accept me." It really lit a fire. I really wanted to succeed.

  David Copperfield

  Fire, Years, Magic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Thinking, Deception, Musician

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• The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

  Michael Chabon

  Fire, Dust, Broken

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• Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Yesterday, Today, Facts

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.

  Alan Moore

  Law, Mad, Trying

  Interview with Matthew De Abaitua, www.harrybravado.com. October 1, 2011.

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• A true magician must not undertake anything regarding which he is not thoroughly informed.

  Franz Bardon

  Magic, Mysticism

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• Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Pain, Powerful, Bills

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

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• The Great Work of Magic is the collapsing of the future into the immediate present; the magician seizes reality and lives now, free from the bonds of his past, and knowing that the future is the Manifestation of his Will.

  Phil Hine

  Past, Reality, Knowing

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• Magick comes in many forms, and there are many covert master magicians who are so covert that they don't even know they are magicians.

  Christopher Penczak

  Form, Masters, Covert

  Christopher Penczak (2009). “The Witch's Coin: Prosperity and Money Magick”, p.29, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he did what any friend would: He set out to prove spiritualism false and rob his friend Doyle of the only comforting fiction that was keeping him sane. It was the least he could do.

  John Hodgman

  Comforting, Magic, Fiction

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• We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the great arts. . . . The important thing in ballet is the movement itself. A ballet may contain a story, but the visual spectacle . . . is the essential element. The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.

  George Balanchine

  Art, Believe, Independent

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

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• Basically the job of a magician is to do impossible things that challenge the nature of the universe. And I think some magicians buy into that perception a little too much. These days that turns people off a little bit. I'm not a wizard. I don't have special powers. If I did, I would not be doing magic for a living!

  Justin Willman

  Thinking, People, Challenges

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Magic, Wave, Wands

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