Tricky Quotes - Page 9

• The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.

  Northrop Frye

  Character, Tennessee, Kind

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.449, University of Toronto Press

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• It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host It's a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it.

  Mike Rowe

  Jobs, Real, Dirty

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• Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable.

  Dorie Greenspan

  Real, People, Complicated

  Dorie Greenspan (2014). “Baking Chez Moi: Recipes from My Paris Home to Your Home Anywhere”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.

  Oren Peli

  Drama, Character, Thinking

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• It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.

  Lili Taylor

  Plastic, Plastic Surgery, Surgery

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• Corina Bartra is a very intriguing singer. On Son Zumbon ... the music utilizes tricky rhythms, the leader's haunting voice, and plenty of short solos. There is no lack on intensity in this program.

  Scott Yanow

  Son, Voice, Leader

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• Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.

  John Slattery

  Fall, Character, Play

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.

  Shawn Ryan

  Running, Stars, Tv Shows

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• Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

  Lance Reddick

  Auditions, Instinct, Notes

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2008.

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• I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Fashion, Artist, Ignorant

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• I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.

  Vincent Piazza

  Writing, Two, Historical

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• Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and imagination she had from the beginning into wisdom and a clearsightedness that reaches past sympathy.

  Tom Shippey

  Clever, Past, Imagination

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• Obviously this all gets tricky/complicated when your writing reveals so much of your private/intimate life, and the nature of writing on the Internet comes with a lot of focus on your "personal brand."

  Marie Calloway

  Writing, Focus, Internet

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That's the tricky thing about being bonded to someone for life. Blake and his dad are bonded like I'm bonded with Erin. We're irrevocably tied together by history, a history that can never be erased. Even if you want to deny it, even it you want to pretend it never existed, it will always be a part of you. It will always, in some way, define who you are.

  Susane Colasanti

  Dad, Together, Want

  Susane Colasanti (2010). “Something Like Fate”, p.154, Penguin

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• We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us, but we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

  Julian Assange

  People, Acting, Way

  "Why the world needs WikiLeaks". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• The schematics are a little bit tricky, but once you get it down you're able to really program an entire show. Every song has a lot of different guitar sounds in it, so that's what it is.

  Annie E. Clark

  Song, Guitar, Sound

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• Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb you know, most of it's up until you reach the very very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply.

  Graham Chapman

  Kilimanjaro, Climbs, Slopes

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• Bringing production to a festival can be tricky sometimes.

  Mikey Way

  Festivals, Sometimes, Productions

  "Mikey Way talks of Big Day Out 2012!". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, January 2012.

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• Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not as tricky as we think we are.

  Peter Orner

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

  Tori Amos

  Loss, Stuff, Grows

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• My favourite song of Elton's is... it's a tricky one for me. I'm a proper fan and I've probably seen him in concert about a dozen times before I even met him. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters, which isn't in this film... but whenever I see him, I always tell him that Passengers is my favourite song because it's one of his least auspicious ones.

  Matt Lucas

  Song, Mad, Dozen

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it's a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states.

  Cate Blanchett

  Two, Curiosity, Important

  "Cate Blanchett Knows You're Zooming in on Her Pores and She's Cool with It". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.marieclaire.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Balance is a tricky thing. I love my work and that helps. And I work a lot. So I spend a fair amount of time trying to make sure I'm taking time off, exercising, meditating and things like that. I also have a powerful support team (including my partner, Kelley) to keep me grounded. I don't always feel like I have the balance I want, but I have awareness about it, which I think is key.

  Steven C. Harper

  Powerful, Team, Exercise

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• It'd be tricky to read into my lyrics - some are autobiographical, but sometimes I just like the sound of words.

  Max Tundra

  Sound, Sometimes

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Second films are, you know, like 'difficult second albums', so it's a tricky position to be in but I think he's made a highly accomplished film.

  Andy Serkis

  Thinking, Albums, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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