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David Blaine's Profile

Brief about David Blaine: By info that we know David Blaine was born at 1973-04-04. And also David Blaine is American Entertainer.

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People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.

Tags: Mind, Possible, Potential

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.

Tags: Capable, Infinitely

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.

Tags: Art, Hand, Love

As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.

Tags: Anybody, Else, Used

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.

Tags: Cool, Time, Together

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.

Tags: Book, Him, Love

I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.

Tags: Her, Mother, Remember

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.

Tags: Great, Science, Started

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.

Tags: Idea, Show, Together

Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance.

Tags: Pretty, Simple, Training

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

Tags: Art, Hand, Idea

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.

Tags: Amazing, Love, Mother

But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's the ones you don't see.

Tags: Sharks, Worry

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

Tags: Magic, Put, Wanted

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

Tags: Amazing, Best, Hope

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

Tags: Fasting, Idea, Isolation

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

Tags: Minds, Ourselves, Truth

My only fear is the unknown.

Tags: Fear, Unknown

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

Tags: Houdini, Kid, Obsessed

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

Tags: Growing, Mother, Single
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