Tricky Quotes - Page 11

• I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you got to watch yourself.

  Wayne White

  Long, Cameras, Hollywood

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

  Christian Bale

  Careers, Planning, Plans

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 5, 2007.

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• The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

  Eden Robinson

  Balance, World, Artistic

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• As actors, you meet people that you are working with and it's tricky. It's blurry... how do you decipher things? I have definitely dated [a co-star], oh yeah, multiple times. It's easy.

  Sutton Foster

  Stars, People, Actors

  "Younger Stars Sutton Foster and Nico Tortorella Answer All Your Relationship Questions". www.cosmopolitan.com. September 28, 2016.

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• Yes, there may be some convergence to what you see on a screen that's different from the way you will experience a magazine in your hand, but there are lots of ways you can signal differences. Where native advertising and these other things get tricky is when the consumer can't tell the difference between edit and advertising.

  Norman Pearlstine

  Differences, Hands, May

  Source: wwd.com

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• If you look at say, England and Germany a century ago, which had the most advanced navies then, they were dealing with extremely tricky technological problems. Putting a huge gun on a moving platform and ensuring that it could hit another moving target was one of the hardest technical problems of the early twentieth century.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Gun, Navy

  Source: www.madre.org

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• Love is tricky. It is never mundane or daily. You can never get used to it. You have to walk with it, then let it walk with you. You can never balk. It moves you like the tide. It takes you out to sea, then lays you on the beach again. Today's struggling pain is the foundation for a certain stride through the heavens. You can run from it but you can never say no. It includes everyone.

  Amy Tan

  Running, Beach, Pain

  "The Hundred Secret Senses". Book by Amy Tan, 2010.

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• They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray.

  Rachel Cohn

  Demon, Courses, Trusted

  Rachel Cohn (2010). “Very LeFreak”, p.75, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you. . . . But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Hurt, Feelings, Needs

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• Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee's, let's say, or the waitress at Dunkin' Donuts who knows how you like your coffee. Tricky business, really.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Children, Coffee, Thinking

  Elizabeth Strout (2013). “Olive Kitteridge”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.

  Candace Bushnell

  Karma, Punishment, Risk

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• He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves.' Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.

  George Orwell

  Brother, Couple, Moving

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.219, Arcturus Publishing

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• Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.

  James A. Baldwin

  Heaven, Legends, Crime

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind". www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

  Tony Blair

  Media, Creative, Healthy

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• I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows.

  Brian Greene

  Memories, Thinking, Flow

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• Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Regret, Secret, Bigs

  "Mitch Hurwitz on the Creative Process, Casting Jason Bateman, and Loose Seals". Interview with John Sellers, www.vulture.com. October 22, 2013.

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• Gender is used as a control mechanism that's just wrong. Gender is never anything to struggle with; gender is something to play with. Once you're free of the rules that all these hierarchical, oppressive systems place on gender, that's the tricky part.

  Kate Bornstein

  Struggle, Play, Gender

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• There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and revenge. You have to ice skate rather carefully between the humor and the action tension part of the drama.

  Walter Hill

  Revenge, Drama, Ice

  Source: collider.com

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• When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.

  Marc Webb

  Tennis, Balls, Pieces

  "Emma Stone and Marc Webb Talk THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, Honoring the Marvel Icon, and Why Andrew Garfield is the Perfect Spider-Man". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2012.

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• In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history of common courtesy and the one true secret of social success: how to not drive everyone around you crazy.

  William Poundstone

  Art, Crazy, Common Sense

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• Nowadays, people shoot digitally and it's all in color, but you press a button and it all goes to black and white. But it's not lit for black and white. So, it's a tricky thing. If you're going do black and white, you better remember to separate things with light, because color ain't gonna be there.

  David Lynch

  Black And White, Light, Color

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview with Christopher Bollen and Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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• I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.

  Noomi Rapace

  People, Difficult

  Source: collider.com

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• Marketing is always a tricky thing with a rated R movie. Sometimes people just get what it is and they want to come see it, and sometimes you have to explain it more.

  Andy Samberg

  People, Marketing, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.

  Robert Redford

  Success, Nice, Mistress

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• You'll drive yourself crazy if you start trying to pry the meaning out of every gust of wind or rain squall. I'm not denying that there might actually be a few signs that you won't want to miss. Knowing the difference is the tricky part.

  David Eddings

  Crazy, Rain, Wind

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