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The Soul of an Idea with David Copperfield

A Bit of Optimism

CHAPTER

The Joy of Developing Illusions

I am interested in fear and I want to go deeper into that. And I'm interested in how one has a career that has lasted this long. The joy is going through the process of failing and then succeeding. It's not fun, but the succeeding at it is fun. Each time I do a new piece of magic, I can't play on the same piano. I've got to invent the technology each time. That's really hard. You know, all the songwriters, they still have the guitar,. They still have the piano. This instrument is still the same. Then comes the story," he said.

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