Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and … - Ricky Jay

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Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. . . . It's really just a response to life.

Ricky Jay

Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and years, you make a serious survey of that literature, and then you make it more specific depending on what kind of case appears. I never set out to collect material on cheating at bowling, but I found out that after 20 years, I had a lot of material on cheating at bowling.

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Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong.

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I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L. A. to do more television and get into show business.

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I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

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That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

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I grew up like Athena—covered with playing cards instead of armor—and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

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