Laura Del Col At the coffee shop today I sat next to a magician and one of his students. He was probably younger than the magician, but he looked older. They were talking and laughing loudly, like middle-management types at a drunken convention. It took me 10 years to become comfortable with who I am onstage.
Perfect practice makes perfect.
Just because you walk into an art store and buy some paints and brushes, it doesn't make you a painter. That made me a bit nervous, since a few years ago I bought a typewriter and decided that I was a writer. Or realized it, rather. The magician ended by decrying the number of amateurs dabbling in magic these days. People think it's a kids' hobby, but you go to the conventions and you see all these doctors and lawyers with a tremendous amount of money to spend on this.