Derren Brown Quotes

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• A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order…
• Seems the seance has become the most complained-about show. It received 700 complaints. I might add that the prospect of me blowing my head off…
• I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.
• Have your cake and eat it... there's no other reason to have a cake
• I am often dishonest in my techniques ... I happily admit to cheating, it's all part of the game. I hope some of the fun…
• I would like a bit of me - that’s how I put my back out!
• We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.
• The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.
• When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real magic would not…
• In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art therapy. The rendering…
• A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people…
• ...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.
• Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without…
• Magic is not inherently anything. It is what you sell it as.
• The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.
• There are things in your life which you are in control of, and those you're not. You need to not care about those things which…
• I’m a big fan of parrots - I think they’re fascinating creatures. Many of them live for longer than us humans and it's interesting to…
• Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.
• Booking an act for my Dad's 70th birthday, I wanted a great act and went straight to John Archer- his reputation in the magic world…
• If someone does not have a specific charity they would like to donate to, that's OK. An undesignated donation would be split up evenly amongst…

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