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

— Derren Brown

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

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British illusionist 1971

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“Under the guise of a motivational seminar, in which I teach my skills to a group of middle-management business men and women, can I get any of them to steal one hundred thousand pounds in what they believe is a genuine armed robbery?”

Derren Brown (1971) British illusionist

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

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“It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever, he said. Have you thought of going into teaching?”

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“Now there are classes indeed where the newly dead are instructed. I used to teach some of these.”

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Session 331, Page 331
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 7

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