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• ‟ Guilt's too strong a word, but there is this niggling worry that I'm a grown-up doing a childish job and it would be nice to do something more useful and to reach a number of people with an idea you think is important.

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• ‟ People are just passively accepting what you tell them, so if you are on TV there is that greater responsibility to be true.

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• ‟ You have to realise that hypnosis doesn't exist: it just works on people's natural suggestibility, their expectations and capacity to unconsciously role play. You can't make someone do anything they don't want to do.

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• ‟ A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people. You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.

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• ‟ Taking up magic was a distraction from my sexuality. There is that 1970s cliche of the gay man as hairdresser, interior decorator, fashionista... and all of those things are about arranging surfaces in a very dazzling way - and magic is all about how you arrange surfaces. I got very good at deflecting people from things I didn't want them to see.

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• ‟ If people have very big personalities, I find myself feeling I have nothing to offer.

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• ‟ Hypnosis is just suggestibility; you see it in certain people.

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• ‟ If you do magic, it's the quickest most fraudulent route to impressing people.

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• ‟ It's a controlling thing on stage - you're directing the action, getting people to play their role. In real life, I take being kind and nice seriously, so the last thing I'd ever want to be is that weird, controlling, manipulative character.

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• ‟ If you're a comedian, it's a bit of a choice whether or not you want to be funny when you're not performing because it might feel disingenuous. In the same way, I don't show people magic tricks in social situations any more.

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• ‟ I had a natural aptitude for wanting to be the centre of attention and a definite skill for annoying people.

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