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I'm more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad.
Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.
Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.
Neuroscientists are novices at deception.
Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.
People take reality for granted.
The place we want to explore unpleasantness in the real world is in art.
People come up to me on the street and make some little joke - like they'll say, 'Excuse me, sir, what time is it?' And I'll say, you... →
Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.
I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.
I believe in art.
If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.
If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.
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