"If it sounds too good to be true,…" — Ricky Jay

"If it sounds too good to be true, it always is."

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27 Quotes by Ricky Jay

Ricky Jay has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I grew up like Athena—covered with playing cards instead of armor—and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV…
The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.
Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.
I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things…
I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds…
For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be…
I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.
I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show…
Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a…
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying…
That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that…

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