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David Copperfield

David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account).[note 1] It was first published as a serial in 1849–50, and as a book in 1850. The novel features the character David Copperfield, and is written in the first person, as a description of his life until middle age, with his own adventures and the web of friends and enemies he meets along his way. Copperfield finds career success as an author, and is a person of deep emotions.

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Everything that you'd see on The Ed Sullivan Show was at the Tannen's Magic. You'd think that if you could afford a trick like Doc Nixon's Dove Vanish, then you could be on The Ed Sullivan Show as an 8-year-old kid.

Kids, Magic, Think, Thinking, Vanish, Years

The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.

Audience, Audiences, Enthusiastic, Keep

Marriage is like a formality for me.

Formality, Like, Marriage

When you see me do a five-minute thing, there's been about two years of preparation behind that. You know, I find that's what it takes to really make it the level of quality I prefer.

Preparation, Takes, Two, Years

I was a captive and a slave. I loved Dora Spenlow to distraction! She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I dont know what she was--anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted.

Everybody, Fairy, Loved, Saws, Slave

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

Ethic, Ethics, Magic, Magicians, Secret, Secrets

I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.

Views, Principles, Point Of View, View, Audience

Watching people react, watching people be inspired, be taken on a journey, forgetting their problems, looking ahead in their own lives to doing impossible things. That's kind of what drives me, gives me a sense of focus.

Drives, Gives, Impossible Things, Journey, Taken, Watching

It's really hard to think of one kind of magic as a favorite. I've been really fortunate in that I've been able to perform such a diverse range of things.

Able, Diverse, Hard, Magic, Range, Thinking

Later, when I was at Caesar's Palace, and [Joe and Gil Cates] were trying to get me to have opening acts for the show, they gave me a list of people, and Rosie O'Donnell was one of them. I said, "I don't really need any opening acts. I have funny stuff in the show, and I do a lot of comedy and stuff. "

Cates, Gil, Having Fun, People, Show, Trying

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

Figures, Magic, Modern, Occult

The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time.

Challenge, Challenges, Different, Shot, Time, Trying

My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

Dream, Dreams, Dress, Dresses, Future

I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!

Caused, Controversy, Fountain, Secret, Youth

There was a guy named Ed Mishell. He was this grandfatherly guy who did all the illustrations for the catalogs and reviewed magic effects for the magic magazines, so all of the magic dealers would send him magic effects for free-it was a great deal. His basement was full of this stuff. He took me under his wing, and he would sneak me into the Society of American Magicians meetings in New York. It's the world's oldest magic organization.

Illustration, Magic, Meetings, New York, Wing, Wings

I'm a horrible karaoke singer.

Horrible, Karaoke, Singer, Singers

You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.

Feel Better, Kind, Magic, Short, Time

[Producers] took me to Chicago at 18 to star in a show that ran for almost a year. And that's when my parents said, "Okay, I guess you can quit Fordham. " Of course, when that show closed, as you can imagine, I came to New York and starved for years, but it's never an easy road.

New York, Ran, Show, Stars, Starved, Years

If you ever saw All That Jazz [1979], Bob Fosse was kind of raised dancing in strip joints and the whole era of burlesque, and that form ran his visual aesthetic, the pacing and rhythm of what he did.

Dancing, Joints, Ran, Saws, Visual

There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.

Jobs, Safe, Tornadoes, Spot, Tornado

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