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He is probably the most successful magician in history.

SUCCESSFUL

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He started practicing magic when he was 10. At the age of 12, he became the youngest member of the Society of American Magicians.

BECOME

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At the age of 19 he played the leading role in the musical The Magic Man. That’s when David Kotkin chose his strange name – ‘David Copperfield’ – from the famous novel by Charles Dickens.

CHOOSE

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David has won 11 Guinness World Records and 21 Emmy Awards for his TV series. In 2011, he was named ‘King of magic’ by the Society of American Magicians.

NAME

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Copperfield’s most popular illusions include walking through the Great Wall of China, levitating over the Grand Canyon and making the Statue of Liberty disappear.

POPULAR

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He says that the inspiration for new illusions

ILLUSION

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comes to him in dreams.

HE

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‘Creating a new illusion is like writing a song, sometimes the lyrics come first and sometimes it’s the music’.

ONE

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He still hopes to make the moon disappear and straighten the leaning tower of Pisa.

HOPE