David Blaine Quotes

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

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• 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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• I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

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

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• I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

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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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• 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 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.

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• I think great whites are the most beautiful and perfect creatures I’ve ever seen.

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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 was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

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

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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.

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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 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.

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• My only fear is the unknown.

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• We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.

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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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David Blaine (20)

Birth:	4th April, 1973
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Magician, Stunt Performer

About

David Blaine was born in Brooklyn, New York City. He is an American magician and stunt Performer. He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance, and has made his name as a performer of street and close-up magic. He has performed all over the world and has set and broken several world records.

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