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If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.

~Doug Henning

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Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.

~Doug Henning

Topics: Appears Been Call Discovered Happens Illusion Impossible Known Laws Magic Nature Real Science Something Uses

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When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.

~Doug Henning

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It's important to me to create the largest wonder.

~Doug Henning

Topics: Create Important Largest Me Wonder

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The reason I can give wonder is that I feel wonder about the world: the stars, a tree, my body - everything.

~Doug Henning

Topics: About Body Everything Feel Give Reason Stars Tree Wonder World I Feel I Can

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When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.

~Doug Henning

Topics: Advanced Alone Before Could Couple Did Doing Even Few Figure First Illusions Imitate Me Other Out Television Took Try Were Years

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I don't put a girl in a box and clap my hands three times, and she's gone. I get in the box, and I vanish, and I reappear at the other side of the stage. That way, people don't think, 'That's a great illusion.' They think, 'Doug's a great magician.'

~Doug Henning

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I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.

~Doug Henning

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Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it stretched the credibility of the audience to the point where most people didn't believe any of it anymore.

~Doug Henning

Topics: Any Anymore Attempted Audience Because Believe Credibility He Illusion Large Liberty Most No Wonder Now People Point Something Statue Statue Of Liberty Stretched Where Wonder

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Entertainer

Born: May 3rd, 1947

Died: February 7th, 2000

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