Marco Tempest Quotes

#1. One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

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#2. Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

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#3. Everything I did, I did for mankind.

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#4. The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.

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#5. Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

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#6. About three years ago, I started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness to create new digital tools for magic - tools that could eventually be shared with other artists to start them off further on in the process and to get them into the poetry faster.

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#7. The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.

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#8. My products and magic are free, but on the commercial side of what I do, the big tech companies are impressed with somebody like me who can emotionalize a piece of technology.

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#9. We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

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#10. I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic.

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#11. Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

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#12. The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

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#13. Combining magic with technology is a good way to influence the trajectory of where technology is going and show people what technology could be in our lives and what it shouldn't be.

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#14. Magic is, in its core, introverted and closed; it's the most closed community ever, and I want to change all that and make it more open. If we want things to change, we have to be more open-minded.

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#15. Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.

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#16. I don't try to show off technology in my work. The technology is a means to tell stories, so I think conversations about my work can be had by very large audiences.

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#17. I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

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