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“My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.”

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Author:Fernando Alonso

“When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.”

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Author:J. J. Abrams

“I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“People should get married because they have finally seen the folly of being single: "Oh, this is all just kind of a bad magic trick. I just keep bending over to reach for this wallet on a string. How much longer am I gonna do that?"”

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Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did magic tricks, cards tricks and I played the banjo.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it all in. I didn't know you were supposed to just stand up and tell jokes. Essentially, that's what my act became: those five elements - except I dropped the poetry.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“The spirits are an age-old theme, a story from darkest history, and therefore a presentational anchor that can be used with many different magic tricks.”

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Author:Eugene Burger

“Of course, in all magic tricks theres a secret.”

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Author:Lene

“I've worked ever since I was a kid with a two-bit kit of magic tricks trying to improve my skills at entertaining whatever public I had - and to make myself ready, whenever the breaks came, to entertain a wider and more demanding public.”

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Author:Johnny Carson

“Whenever I'm in need of inspiration and mantras, I go straight to simple affirmations. 'I am strong', 'I am brave', 'I can do this' and 'I'm awesome'. Whatever you put after 'I am', you will become. 'I am' are the two most powerful words, so make sure what you say after 'I am' is what you want to experience. It's like a magic trick.”

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Author:Jason Mraz

“Two Drink Mike enjoys dancing and knows a magic trick. Whereas, No Drink Mike enjoys biographies, and has serious opinions on wildlife. And Five Drink Mike... dances with wildlife.”

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Author:Mike Birbiglia

“Hopefully we'll get to a point where there are absolutely no restrictions on any kind of violence in movies. I'd love to see us get to a point where you can go to theaters and see movies unrated and that people know its not real violence. It's all pretend. It's all fake. It's just acting. It's just magic tricks.”

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Author:Eli Roth

“I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!”

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Author:Eli Roth

“If one must explain a magic trick, one should do so after the show is over.”

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Author:Larry Niven

“A lot of the audience know that magic tricks are largely sleight of hand stuff, but they're intrigued by the mind stuff. They understand some of the principles behind it . . . but they're confused by how it's all mixed together onstage, which is good for me.”

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Author:Keith Barry

“My experience in work, even going to work with Scorsese, is that people always think there's some magic trick. There's no magic trick. The people who are really good at what they do do simple things really, really well.”

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Author:Matthew McConaughey

“You have to really make sure that every moment means something, and that every moment, there's a purpose for it. And then you have to blend it all together without it looking like you're really focusing on it. That, to me, was the magic trick that was most difficult for the film [Buried].”

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Author:Ryan Reynolds

“Disappearing act? That's a magic trick, isn't it? I like magic tricks!”

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Author:Kate Bush

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

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Author:David Copperfield

“You've just got to get people organized and tell them the truth. There aren't any magic tricks to it. You know, sometimes it's pretty amazing. Actually, I mentioned a pretty striking case of this in "Crisis and Hope," which was the Caterpillar case in the early 1990s.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree, that they aren't even considered victims. They aren't even considered at all. They're nothing. They don't count, they don't matter, they're commodities like TV sets and cellphones. We've actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes. It is the greatest magic trick ever performed.”

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Author:Gary Yourofsky

“I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.”

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Author:Katy Perry

“Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.”

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Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”

Source: The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets

“Movies are like magic tricks.”

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Author:Jeff Bridges

“Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.”

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Author:Jeff Bridges

“That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.”

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Author:Charles de Lint

“Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.”

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Book:The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”

Source: The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets

“A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.”

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Author:Jostein Gaarder

“I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME!”

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Author:J. K. Rowling

“I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.”

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Author:Nicolas Cage

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