David Copperfield
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. It was first published as a serial in 1849–50, and as a book in 1850. Many elements of the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is often considered as his veiled autobiography. It was Dickens' favorite among his own novels. In the preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMagician
Date of Birth16 September 1956
CityMetuchen, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
David Copperfield quotes about
For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.
The audience likes to be taken on new journeys.
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.
I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.
The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.
The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.
Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.
Never stop listening to your audience.
I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.
I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show.
Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.