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" If I asked you to stand in one spot for 35 hours or a certain length of time, you could do it. "
David Blaine
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. "
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" As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini. "
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" I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there. "
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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. "
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" We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesar's, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did. "
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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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" In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. "
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Minds
Only
" 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. "
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Time
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" I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate. "
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Love
Performance
Myself
" 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. "
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Say
Worry
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" I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and it's - It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. "
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Training
Best
Pain
" I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death. "
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Death
Believe
Fear
" 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. "
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" I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder. "
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Know
Me
People
" 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. "
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Think
Die
" 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. "
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" Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea. "
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" My only fear is the unknown. "
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Fear
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" 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. "
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Started
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years. "
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" I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago. "
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Back
" 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. "
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Library
Love
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