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Magic Quotes by Penn Jillette
- One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and…
- For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.
- I came to magic absolutely hating magic on a very, very deep level.
- If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.
- Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.
- Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.
- There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs…
- Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick…
- One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and…
- One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no…
- The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that…
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