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" I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere. "

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" 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

Doing

Illusions

Things

" In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. "

" I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician who had a magic show, but he was also an escape artist, and they kind of, over time, blended together. They both kind of enhance each other, I think. "

" Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn. "

" I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse. "

" My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing. "

" My only fear is the unknown. "

" I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing. "

" I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there. "

" 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. "

" When I was about 19, I shot a tape of me doing magic just to people on the streets, and I would edit together all the reactions and I kept pushing this idea, and then ABC came on board and made my first show. "

" I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago. "

David Blaine

Years

Back

" I think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need. "

" But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's the ones you don't see. "

" 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. "

" I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. It's using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure. "

" I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge. "

" My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions. "

" I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate. "

" As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini. "

" I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder. "

David Blaine

Know

People

" People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains. "

" I think great whites are the most beautiful and perfect creatures I've ever seen. "

" I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation. "

" I do a lot of research on what people have done in the past. "

" If I asked you to stand in one spot for 35 hours or a certain length of time, you could do it. "

" 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. "

" As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive. "

" Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance. "

" Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea. "