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Ricky Jay Quotes

American - Actor | 1948 -

Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general, most collectors are obsessed. I think the only form of a rationalized greed is when you're collecting something you are supposedly serious about.

Day Writing Think Greed You Cards

Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.

Life Writing My Life Get Only Just

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

Good Me Magic Create Lovely Well

That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

Language Say Obscure Becoming Common

Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.

Time Food Best World Baking Go

Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.

Think Cards First Magicians Made

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

Father Mother Daughter King Long

I was considered a comedy magician. And - how do I put this without sounding egotistical? - it didn't take me long to realize that comedy magicians usually couldn't do comedy or magic.

Me Comedy Magic Long Realize Take

For the most part, magic secrets are available on a level that's overwhelming and frightening, and they are very accessible if you do the tiniest bit of digging. But, that said, there's a certain group of individuals, in which I am included, who are very tight about secrets and don't share them with anyone.

I Am Magic You Secrets Said Group

I grew up like Athena - covered with playing cards instead of armor - and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

Age Doing Magic Cards Up Playing

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

Good Art Pain Doing Magic Bad

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.

Know Nothing Century 20th Century

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