My mother was a teacher, and ...

My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.
 David Blaine

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My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.
 David Blaine
Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.
 David Blaine
I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.
 David Blaine
As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others.
 David Blaine
I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. Its using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.
 David Blaine