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Andrew Mayne

(1973) Filmmaker United States

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Andrew Mayne is a filmmaker from the United States, best known for Sea Storm.

Quick Facts About Andrew Mayne

Born: May 25, 1973
Nationality: United States
Profession: Filmmaker
Notable works: Sea Storm

About Andrew Mayne

Andrew Mayne is a novelist, inventor, magician, original prompt engineer and science communicator for OpenAI and contributor to GPT-4 for novel capability discovery. He is a three-time Thriller Award finalist and an Edgar finalist for his novel Black Fall. In 2019, he swam alongside great white sharks using an underwater stealth suit in the Discovery Channel Shark Week special Andrew Mayne: Ghost Diver. Having written and produced over fifty books, DVDs, and manuscripts on magic, he was described in 2010 as one of the most prolific magic creators of the 2000s. He is also the publisher of iTricks.com and the host of the Weird Things podcast. In 2021, Mayne became the Science Communicator for OpenAI.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Andrew Mayne

“If I were looking for a bacterium that could eat oil, I’d be collecting samples of dirt from the middle of busy…

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“But they’re careful to avoid overpredation in certain areas, lest the fish remember this is a bad spot.”

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“Killing is a solution to a problem. Murder is something you do because you want to. You divorce your wife because you…

Marriage

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Read about the history of magic.

Books

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“Yes. You can see this in the womb, where one fetus takes nutrients from another, causing varying birth weights. In vanishing twin…

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“We live in an incredible age. People like Laney get it, so do some of the general public. But I think they're…

Big things

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“In space there's no way to ground an electric current. If you have stray voltage, it'll find a path, no matter what.”

Electric current

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Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.

Comedian

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“There’s a clarity that arrives when life forces you into a binary situation.”

Life

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“He’s trying to assert his authority by calling me onto the carpet. It’s a show of force. It’s weak.”

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“I’m not a spy. I’m not a cop. All I know is from watching movies and I’m pretty sure if my life…

Life

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“Roosevelt pulled a cigar from his pocket and lit it. “How can you smoke at a time like this?” asked the captain.…

Cardiac arrest

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“I’m not really an epidemiologist, if that’s what you mean. It’s outside my area. I build mathematical models based on biological systems.”

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“A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding it.…

Failure

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“We did those things when we were acting of fear from the cold war. After 9/11 we learned a new kind of…

Bad people

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“She couldn't decide if he was a bit mad or if the world moved too slowly for him. Perhaps a little of…

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“In biology you become accustomed to different ways data can represent itself. Salmon returning upstream and herd animals have very linear patterns.…

Different ways

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“Deep down we’re all animals.”

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Pay attention to your visual themes.

Attention

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“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, a mere heart of stone. —Charles Darwin”

Heart of stone

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Use video to train assistants you'll be surprised how quickly they learn.

Assistants

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“Hudson Creek is a decaying strip of buildings on either side of the highway, clinging to the road like barnacles on a…

Falling apart

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Spare no expense on the stuff that matters.

Expenses

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