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I think great whites are the most beautiful and perfect creatures I've ever seen.

~David Blaine

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It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

~David Blaine

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Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

~David Blaine

Topics: Art Create Hand Idea Illusion Intrigued Just Magic Slight Use Where Wonder You

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My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.

~David Blaine

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I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician who had a magic show, but he was also an escape artist, and they kind of, over time, blended together. They both kind of enhance each other, I think.

~David Blaine

Topics: About Also Artist Because Blended Both Cool Each Enhance Escape Had He Kind Magic Magician Other Over Say Show Something Think Time Together Who You I Think

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Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

~David Blaine

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I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.

~David Blaine

Topics: Book Building Chained Finding Get He Head Him Image Intense Library Looked Love Magic Out Remember Scary Seeing Side Started Up I Remember

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I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge.

~David Blaine

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Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.

~David Blaine

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When I was about 19, I shot a tape of me doing magic just to people on the streets, and I would edit together all the reactions and I kept pushing this idea, and then ABC came on board and made my first show.

~David Blaine

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: April 4th, 1973

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