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• We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of greatness itself is denied. Greatness is not a white male trick. Every important world civilization has defined its artistic tradition in elitist terms of distinction and excellence.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Greatness, Civilization

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.115, Vintage

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• When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

  Albert Camus

  Speaks Out, Silence, Abuse

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.177, Vintage

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• Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of the editing room. The trick is to perfect the movie that you have and make it the best version of what you've shot, regardless of what the intent may have been.

  Joe Dante

  Editing, Perfect, May

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Artist, Body, Fit

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• Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

  Ben Marcus

  Fiction, Complicated, Breaking Down

  "'A reading list is not my trophy case.' An Interview with Ben Marcus About His Syllabus". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. June 24, 2014.

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• [Calling you a] star is just a trick. It's like a straw man thing. They [people] set you up just to knock you over. It's bull. You avoid it, I avoid it.

  David Crosby

  Stars, Men, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To live in the moment and in the future at the same time would seem to me to be the trick.

  Todd May

  Live In The Moment, Moments, Seems

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I have always been convinced that one can be more successful in business with honest, fair and legal behavior than with tricks.

  Heinrich von Pierer

  Successful, Honest, Behavior

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You can’t really innovate for the past (your offering won’t be innovative and will be beaten easily by competitors). If you innovate for the future, then adoption will be slow until customers become ready. The trick is to task your insights team to provide guidance for the future present.

  Braden Kelley

  Team, Past, Offering

  Braden Kelley (2010). “Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire: A Roadmap to a Sustainable Culture of Ingenuity and Purpose”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• The trick is finding a person whose flaws don't drive you crazy...you know...someone whose flaws you can live with...someone who can stand your flaws, too.

  Marcia Lynn McClure

  Crazy, Flaws, Persons

  Marcia Lynn McClure (2011). “The Time of Aspen Falls”, p.54, Distractions Ink

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• Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures].

  Roberto Giobbi

  Writing, Gestures, Scripts

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• I'm pretty well-rounded. I can do most of my tricks left and right, in both directions. I try to be smooth and confident. But it's still developing. I'm still trying to find my own personal touch in the way I ski.

  Nick Goepper

  Trying, Way, Smooth

  "A conversation with Olympic freestyle skier Nick Goepper". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Fear is the trick of the enemy. And your enemy comes in many robes. But he has only one face. You know his face. You've seen it many times. You need not fear it. In your heart, you know you will triumph and you will defeat your enemy with the one weapon that you have inside you that he cannot touch--truth.

  Michael Hainey

  Heart, Enemy, Triumph

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• I always have lipstick, and use the same lipstick for my cheeks as blush, so that it looks very natural. It's a good trick I learned from my mother. I like NYX or MAC because they have a lot of pigment and they're matte.

  Lou Doillon

  Mother, Looks, Use

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• The trick is to smoke a cigarette to calm your nerves and then take a big swig of strong liquor to tone your muscles.

  Lev Yashin

  Strong, Nerves, Tone

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• Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time tells the story of a cosmologist whose speech is interrupted by a little old lady who informs him that the universe rests on the back of a turtle. Ah, yes, madame, the scientist replies, but what does the turtle rest on? The old lady shoots back: You can't trick me, young man. It's nothing but turtles, turtles, turtles, all the way down.

  George Will

  Men, Turtles, Stories

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• When you're writing something new, writing something that's your own, basically you have nothing else to do except either invent a trick, use someone else's trick, or have no trick and get a bad performance.

  Nico Muhly

  Writing, Use, Something New

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I'm bored by films that revolve around a trick. I kind of know if a film is right for me; all the most important decisions are made intuitively.

  Mary Harron

  Bored, Decision, Important

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• I had long periods where I couldn't make things happen, and then periods of enormous good luck. I guess the trick is to keep going in the periods when you're not lucky, when your stars are not aligned.

  Mary Harron

  Stars, Good Luck, Long

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• All my makeup tricks are from modeling jobs! It's my favorite part of the job - learning new tricks!

  Erin Heatherton

  Jobs, Makeup, My Favorite

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm always aware that there's a trick to television to prevent an actor from becoming too lazy. Once you become too familiar with a character, it can stifle the adrenalin from flowing through in the performance.

  Julianna Margulies

  Character, Lazy, Actors

  Source: deadline.com

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• Asking yourself deeper questions opens up new ways of being in the world. It brings in a breath of fresh air. It makes life more joyful. The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Real, Air, Asking

  Fred Alan Wolf (2005). “Dr. Quantum's Little Book Of Big Ideas: Where Science Meets Spirit”, p.16, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for separation: choose an arbitrary dividing line and then treat it as a self-evident law of nature.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Law, Self, Lines

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• A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Self, Risk

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• The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangeous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mistake, Book, Reading

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.152, Random House

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