David Copperfield
Related J. D. SALINGER J.D. SALINGER I went to NYU completely with the idea I wanted to be the next David Copperfield. MICHAEL CARBONARO NATHANIEL KAHN FANNIE FLAGG JOHN GREEN JAROD KINTZ DREW BUSBY ANI DIFRANCO CORNELIA FUNKE MOTHER TERESA DREW BARRYMORE LIZ GOLDWYN SUKARNO SEAMUS HEANEY STING BRUCE WILLIS Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when m... AMY WALDMAN One of the toughest things for leaders to master is kindness. Kindness shares credit and offers enth... TRAVIS BRADBERRY And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all th... BIBLE FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT MILLIE BOBBY BROWN At the point when I lost my father, it really made me want to be like a father and be like my father... SCOTTIE PIPPEN If I was a carpenter, and I was trying to maintain my father's musical legacy, then I guess it w... STEPHEN MARLEY I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas... GEORGE DZUNDZA B. B. KING HOLLY HUNTER STEPHEN KING It felt like home being back at my alma mater and where I coached for so long. I really wanted this ... EILEEN GIVENS CASSANDRA CLARE E. L. KONIGSBURG SARAH VOWELL It's just been my mom and I for, like, three years or so. I love being able to not have to feel ... AULI'I CRAVALHO ELODIE YUNG It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just lo... WARREN MOON I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to... AUBREY PLAZA If i was to tell you how much i miss you words would overwhelm me all i can say is every beat of my ... ATONG TULBA OLIVIA WILDE JOHN LEGEND Happiness is usually experienced when you have learned something new, doing what you really want to ... LORRIN L. LEE I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want ... SAUL LEITER One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of compani... DAN ROSENSWEIG With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the c... GENGHIS KHAN Jordan is a natural comic. He is always making people laugh. After the love and excitement with my f... DESIREE GARCIA SALMAN RUSHDIE DIANA GABALDON Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always... ART ALEXAKIS JOSE MOURINHO BOB SCHIEFFER I love you, and it's not the kind of love that wavers. It's the scary kind that doesn't fade. I look... REBECCA YARROS LONI LOVE ABRAHAM LINCOLN The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve... CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG KATARINA WITT MIKE FARRELL ORLANDO BLOOM I shave every day with an ancient manual razor. It was my father's, and I love it. BRUNELLO CUCINELLI I hope I'm building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles... AARON SCHOCK JOHN IRVING I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wante... CARMEN EJOGO 'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in e... JORDIN SPARKS Change words like difficult/impossible/unrealistic to words like challenging/fun/daring/exciting, an... JAMIE VALENTIN ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT IMAN My father was my first inspiration. He had an incredible stereo and a turntable, and I was told not ... GRANDMASTER FLASH FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA KRISTEN JOHNSTON JENNIFER EGAN I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. ... JAN BRETT The sport has pretty much taken over my life. I love it because you're not competing with anyone but... LOGAN WHITE JOHN G. POLLARD ABRAHAM LINCOLN My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. WILLIAM ADAMS (EXPLORER) ABRAHAM LINCOLN I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've al... FAITH PRINCE My love, words however special ... could never even start, to tell you all the love I have for you w... DHARM BABU My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scou... ED BEGLEY, JR. I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father... DAVID CHARVET STIEG LARSSON PENN JILLETTE VIKRAM SETH CHRISTINA APPLEGATE I'm not very good when people work out of friction... tension. Shouters. Even it's not at me, but ju... AMY IRVING I really have a love and passion for football. I enjoy basketball, but it's not something I love... AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father. EDDIE CIBRIAN You women athletes know (officials) really work hard and we love what we do. What I do right now, I'... DENISE BROOKS I know you've only ever known your father and me. And I love Jack, because he is your father. But th... NIKOLAS SPARKS I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they&... KERRY STOKES WINONA RYDER CHRISTOPHER MELONI Fuck being bored. You shouldn't ever be bored. You can always read and be smarter. You can always wo... TRAVIS BARKER I was supposed to go to Northwestern and become a dental hygienist, get married, have babies. My fat... LAUREN TOM Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time t... BEN SHAHN LEO TOLSTOY Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's n... SALLY PEARSON BRITNEY SPEARS I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really impor... RACHEL KUSHNER I remember being at work and looking down at my hand. And my ring was gone. It had just disappeared.... JOAN HORNER
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I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12. DAVID COPPERFIELD Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic. DAVID COPPERFIELD I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I hav... DAVID COPPERFIELD Marriage is like a formality for me. DAVID COPPERFIELD [•] How Does He Do That? ... Pan The Camera 45 Degrees. DAVID COPPERFIELD Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder. DAVID COPPERFIELD It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets. DAVID COPPERFIELD I like dealing with parents whose children have been arrested for the first time, ... It's one of th... DAVID COPPERFIELD [] How Does He Do That? ... Pan The Camera 45 Degrees. DAVID COPPERFIELD I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear. DAVID COPPERFIELD The reaction was good until I wanted to make it a career. And they said, 'Well, maybe you shouldn't ... DAVID COPPERFIELD It's a program that uses magic as a form of therapy for people with disabilities, where magic is tau... DAVID COPPERFIELD He encouraged me to make every illusion about my personal dreams and my personal nightmares. So I to... DAVID COPPERFIELD The real secret of magic lies in the performance. DAVID COPPERFIELD Bull shit! There is a great deal of new territory to conquer. In my next show I'm going to make a gi... DAVID COPPERFIELD No self-respecting gay guy would have ever made some of the hair and clothing choices I am still try... DAVID COPPERFIELD I could make the whole of Manhattan disappear into that [Jennifer Lopez's] amazing butt. DAVID COPPERFIELD Physical rehab is often very, very hard work. DAVID COPPERFIELD My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. B... DAVID COPPERFIELD I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible. DAVID COPPERFIELD You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic tha... DAVID COPPERFIELD I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show. DAVID COPPERFIELD There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it. DAVID COPPERFIELD Magic is my paint. DAVID COPPERFIELD I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can... DAVID COPPERFIELD When you're a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes. DAVID COPPERFIELD I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet. DAVID COPPERFIELD For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before. DAVID COPPERFIELD Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the ... DAVID COPPERFIELD I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and ins... DAVID COPPERFIELD The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion. DAVID COPPERFIELD You have to learn certain skills to present magic. DAVID COPPERFIELD Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin. DAVID COPPERFIELD Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead. DAVID COPPERFIELD We all possess the need to dream. DAVID COPPERFIELD Never stop listening to your audience. DAVID COPPERFIELD I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear. DAVID COPPERFIELD My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ... DAVID DAVID KATZMAN LARRY DAVID DAVID HAREWOOD DAVID HAREWOOD In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ... DAVID COVERDALE George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo... DAVID LANGE DAVID LYNCH Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a... 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DAVID HARSANYI Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end ... DAVID HEWSON Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds... DAVID HANSON DAVID SEDARIS College is a magic time. Yes, you're young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college e... DAVID SZE DAVID MAMET DAVID LACHAPELLE Gribenes have been referred to as Jewish popcorn or kosher pork rinds. It's basically chicken sk... DAVID SAX Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two wh... DAVID EINHORN I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being... DAVID EINHORN During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first pr... DAVID EINHORN I rooted for the Milwaukee Brewers and its stars, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. I went to a lot of g... DAVID EINHORN I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work. DAVID EINHORN My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. Wh... DAVID EINHORN There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table. DAVID EINHORN On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughn... DAVID EINHORN Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and yo... DAVID EINHORN DAVID CRYSTAL LARRY DAVID Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one coun... DAVID HILBERT Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpe... DAVID MIXNER If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to ... DAVID HALBERSTAM DAVID TENNANT I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up... DAVID STRATHAIRN DAVID LYNCH
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor... 
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor... 
My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural... 
Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural insti... 
I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my fath... 
She didn't say it, I only thought she said it. So really it was my thought, my words, and not hers. ... 
Hearts was the pinnacle of my career. After I left, it really was downhill. Hearts is the club I alw... 
I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's... 
My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, a... 
I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, “Love one another as I have loved you.” Ask ... 
I think I have a love for TV hosts. I can't help it. Ted Koppel was my first crush when I was three.... 
I mix all different oils - my bathroom at home is littered with oils; I'm really into natural be... 
Like David Copperfield, I was born amidst poverty and grew up in poverty. I did not own shoes. I did... 
My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gael... 
I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead. 
I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work. 
When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coa... 
I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my fathe... 
A lot of people say to me, 'Stay grounded; be humble.' David Schwimmer was just like, 'Y... 
I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ... 
Sometimes I go, 'Wow, this is a director I really, really want to work with,' like David Cro... 
I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect th... 
Jem told me what Ragnor Fell said about my father,” Will said. “That for my father, there was on... 
I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. ... 
Everyone says that love requires the utmost honesty, but that’s not entirely true. Once I knew tha... 
When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black be... 
When I have really blonde hair, I usually go for a more natural look, wearing way less makeup. 
I think I'm happier, not just because of winning Grammys and selling records, but because it'... 
One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it wo... 
When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last word... 
For me the most important thing in my life is love. I think you have to be in love with your family,... 
And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand ... 
I will never say never, but I can tell you right now - I am perfectly happy with being who I am. I j... 
My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd ... 
When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that y... 
My father was a gruff Irishman who was unable to express feelings and always insisted we be tough. B... 
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband... 
Almost none of them understood Great Expectations or David Copperfield, anyway. They were not only t... 
I am sorrowful. I am sorrowful that I happened to be born into a world where being disgusted with yo... 
I am sorrowful. I am sorrowful that I happened to be born into a world where being disgusted with yo... 
As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie. 
I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, tha... 
If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof. 
I was on a very bumpy plane ride, an overnight flight. I was so miserable, and I pulled out 'Dav... 
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. 
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. 
I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually bett... 
My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love... 
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work. 
I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love th... 
I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist. 
I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. ... 
But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an ef... 
Being put in the situation that I was in, it was kind of bad with the paparazzi. Last week, my mom a... 
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil... 
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar... 
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k... 
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. 
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar... 
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik... 
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i... 
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th... 
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. 
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le... 
It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea... 
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth... 
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood... 
People use irony as a defense mechanism. 
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ... 
I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go... 
I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. 
I've had an awful lot of good fortune. 
Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is. 
What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became s... 
All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger... 
We live in a world of strange priorities, where Kim Kardashian buying a Lamborghini creates internat... 
The law always limits every power it gives. 
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million differe... 
Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination. 
False modesty can be worse than arrogance. 
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. 
If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve. 
What I value most in my friends is loyalty. 
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea ... 
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you ... 
I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people. 
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit,... 