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Derren Brown est un illusionniste, mentaliste et hypnotiseur anglais, connu notamment pour ses spectacles sur la chaîne britannique Channel 4. Ses spectacles, Mind Control et Trick of the Mind sont basés sur une combinaison de tours d'illusionnisme et de suggestions. Depuis la première diffusion de son spectacle Derren Brown: Mind Control en 2000, Brown a gagné en notoriété grâce à ses tours de magie spectaculaires, il fit même une apparition dans la série "Sherlock", jouant son propre rôle. Il a également écrit des livres pour les magiciens ainsi que pour le grand public. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. février 1971
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Derren Brown: Citations en anglais

“Shopping Malls: Modern cathedrals to spending money. They’re designed to disorientate us and make us stay longer than we need to. Every brick is there to manipulate us to buy.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD

“All of us can be influenced through psychological techniques. For example, if I say “don’t think of a black cat” what do you do? You think of a black cat because the command ‘think of a black cat’ was there in the sentence. Techniques like this can be used to influence people’s thoughts, behaviour, even their memory.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD

“In the nineteenth century, so-called ‘psychics’ were often tested by having to guess the details on a postcard sealed in an envelope. Often they did surprisingly well so i thought it would be worth presenting some modern day non-psychics with the same challenge.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)

“We form many of our political opinions through reading papers and unconsciously absorbing the rhetoric of the journalists. Later, we spout the same opinions as our own. This parallels the way we respond to any authority and it’s something politicians understand well.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)

“Some people believe that a person’s spirit is captured when they are photographed. I invite those of you who don’t believe that to take a photograph of someone you love a stab it repeatedly with a pair of scissors. Maybe they do capture something of the soul.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)

“How would I describe what I do? I suppose a mixture of psychological reading and showmanship and a special form of poncing-about which kind of comes together to form the effect of thought reading and psychological influence but non, non-psychic… not ‘non-non-psychic’, non-psychic.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD

“I’m going to teach them some genuine skills that I use, peppered with some spurious pop-psychology and quite a lot of bullshit.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Derren Brown: The Heist (2006)

“Animals can also be ‘hypnotised’. Flip a rabbit on its back, hold it firmly in position with its head back for a couple of minutes, and you’ll find it will become perfectly motionless and unresponsive, until you clap your hands loudly above its head.”

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TV recordings of stage shows, Svengali (2012), Svengali tour brochure

“Canterbury Cathedral: The first ever pocket watch was found in the walls of its cloister many hundreds of years ago. I decided to come, in the rain, to play with the locals and, if time permitted, attend the evening service.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)

“This week, we’re in Whitby on the North-east coast where my great-uncle, Count Dracula, first touched British soil in the shape of a big dog.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)

“Some athletes use the mind to try and improve stamina and strength. Can I use my mind to take it away?”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD

“A lot is said about children having stronger psychic ability because they’re so unjaded and innocent. This excruciating view of children is generally expounded by people who think like children and perhaps can be forgiven.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)

“Russian Roulette should not, under any circumstances, be copied. It is extremely dangerous.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Derren Brown Plays Russian Roulette Live (2003)

“I have had no formal training in painting: I gave up Art A level because I was sick of drawing peppers.”

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Books, Portraits (2009)

“(Speaking about Chris Ryan, ex-SAS) Charming! Sat there in his white jeans and wanted me to fail. I don't know what he had against me. I'm sure it was nothing to do with my over use of the word ‘podia’, which I hoped would irritate him a little bit more than it did. Some people…”

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Other TV and web appearances, E4 Mind Control Night

“In 1957, James Vicary, a market researcher, conducted a six week test in a New Jersey movie theatre. A high-speed projector repeatedly and subliminally flashed the slogans ‘drink Coke’ and ‘eat popcorn’ over the film. I thought I’d make my own cinema ad to try something similar. According to Vicary, popcorn sales went up by 57.5% and Coke sales by 18.1%… Whether Vicary’s results were due to the subliminals can never be shown and the experiment has become shrouded in urban myth. This is the Genesis Cinema in East London, which kindly agreed to include our ad amongst the trailers for a screening of Ocean's Twelve, a carefully chosen film which, if the ad works, the audience will not be able to remember. Not a bad thing.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)

“It’s Derren Brown, it’s Derren Brown, it’s Derren Brown, it’s Derren Brown. He’s very kind, he’ll read your mind, even if you’re blind, your thoughts he’ll find”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)

“I like my parrot, Figaro. Not in a wrong way – I mean, yes, he’ll do anything for a mouth full of seed but nothing tacky.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD

“For me, the most enjoyable aspect of going out and performing is that I never know how susceptible people will be to my methods.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD

“Any form of card-case, beyond the most battered and unassuming, is surely an aesthetic and social travesty. To withdraw, say, a silver case from the pocket before removing a card is surely to trumpet a ludicrous gaucheness and maladroit pretension. It is impossible for the intended recipient of the card to view the case as anything other than a misjudged piece of peacockery; unfeasible to avoid a brief inner commentary along the lines of oh, he’s bought one of those… he decided this would make the act of handing over a card a signal of his success as a businessman and a certain refined elegance as a gentleman… probably picked it out himself… please God it was a Father’s Day gift from a child who knew no better.”

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Books, Confessions of a Conjuror (2010)

“If you concern yourself with telling or showing people how interesting you are, you will at best provoke a temporary response of polite interest until even that gives way to annoyance. If you let people find it out for themselves, you become a real source of fascination.”

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Books, Tricks of the Mind (2006)

“There are people who have the ability to wake up a minute or even seconds before their alarm goes off or to know what time they’ve woken up without even looking at a clock. Now, thank God, I don’t have to get up in the mornings but the potential of the body to keep such accurate time is remarkable.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)

“I can’t drive, play football without crying, or successfully use a PS3 controller.”

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TV recordings of stage shows, Svengali (2012), Svengali tour brochure

“Séances date back to the 1800s after three sisters by the name of Fox claimed to be able to contact the dead. They toured America with their demonstrations and attracted the rich and famous and by the end of the century séances had taken off all over the western world. Spirits were manifested, tambourines flew, ectoplasm impossibly erupted from entranced mediums. Then, after forty years of this, rather embarrassed by what they’d started, one of the sisters, Margaret Fox, confessed that they were frauds. The miracles which had started it all off had been a scam. But her confession made very little difference and spiritualism continues to appeal to many people today.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Derren Brown: Séance (2004)

“In each episode of this series I will offer an applicant a blind choice of either a pleasant experience, a ‘treat’, or a darker ‘trick’. They won’t know which one they’ve chosen and they may not know how or when it will happen to them.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick or Treat (2007–2008)

“In Victorian criminology there was an enthusiasm for spotting criminal tendencies in a person’s features.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)

“The interest in Lego may have come later. Certainly the grown-up Technic variant, with it gears and cogs and motors, fascinated me the most, and presumably some way into adolescence, as I remember constructing a colourful mechanical Wanking Machine during long periods upstairs in my room. The inevitable problem of round pegs and square holes sadly rendered this particular project fruitless, on many levels, but the manufacturers might like to take note of the idea when planning other themed kits for their teenage boy demographic.”

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Books, Confessions of a Conjuror (2010)

“History is littered with examples of normal people being persuaded to act in deviant, criminal or irrational ways. How do you persuade someone to do something they would not normally be prepared to do? Some people might think of hypnosis. However, hypnosis isn’t really what it appears to be. It’s only a kind of play acting and no one would carry out an instruction to really commit a robbery any more than they’d murder someone if they were told to.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Derren Brown: The Heist (2006)

“One of the techniques that I use to imitate psychic phenomena is photographic memory.”

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TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD

“The balls, the chutzpah, the gall, nerve and impudence of the successful lie that is huge enough never to be questioned is always a source of immense professional pleasure amongst magicians with any sense of the theatrical.”

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Books, Harry Houdini on Deception (foreword) (2009)