- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something a bit embarrassing about saying you're a magician. It immediately suggests all these horrendous cliches, let alone that you're a grown-up doing a child's job.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do always look back and feel faintly embarrassed by anything I've done in the past. I think that's not a terrible thing, because if you don't do that, how are you growing and moving forward?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Leeds, just starting out, and I was hypnotising one person up on stage. Suddenly I had members of the crowd unsuspectingly go to sleep on me as well.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being gay facilitated my capacity for shame. As a child, I carried around this thing that gradually became this big dark secret. When I came out in a newspaper interview at 30 I was expecting the reaction the following day to be like the climax of 'Dead Poets Society,' but actually no one really cared.
- Dazzling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taking up magic was a distraction from my sexuality. There is that 1970s cliche of the gay man as hairdresser, interior decorator, fashionista... and all of those things are about arranging surfaces in a very dazzling way - and magic is all about how you arrange surfaces. I got very good at deflecting people from things I didn't want them to see.
- Ethically
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a house full of taxidermy. It's like a museum. I have about 200 pieces in total, all ethically sourced.
- Foot
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do is rooted in magic - it's got a big foot planted firmly in conjuring, even if the other foot's planted in psychological techniques.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Magic's quite a solitary pursuit - a thing you can do for hours and hours, getting better and better.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
And the nature of magic is all in the person's experience. Whether the magician is using a highly complex sleight of hand or he's just got two cards that are the same, it doesn't matter: it's how it's sold and how magical it is for the person that matters.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people have very big personalities, I find myself feeling I have nothing to offer.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was part of a very uncool group. It was a group that liked classical music. They were known as the Music School Gang or, less charitably, the Poof Gang.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things I've done in the past always make me cringe a bit. When I think back to being a Christian. Proselytising to people, that makes me cringe.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020