David Blaine

Magician

Our Guess:

Quiet and reserved, interested in how and why things work. Excellent skills with mechanical things. Risk-takers who they live for the moment. Usually interested in and talented at extreme sports. Uncomplicated in their desires. Loyal to their peers and to their internal value systems, but not overly concerned with respecting laws and rules if they get in the way of getting something done. Detached and analytical, they excel at finding solutions to practical problems.

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Biography

David Blaine is an American magician, illusionist and endurance artist. He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance, and has set and broken several world records.

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Quotes by David Blaine

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

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.