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• I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

  George Eliot

  Anticipation, Estates

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.550, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Netflix has such a knack for giving a new life to those B-movies that you thought and hoped no one would ever see. Especially when you have a new project coming out and they're looking to mine some of your lesser-known films.

  Spencer Grammer

  Giving, Netflix, New Life

  "Q&A: Spencer Grammer on Being TV's Unlikeliest Sexy Detective". Interview with Matthew Kitchen, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2010.

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• Soberity makes me write dull songs about reorganizing the knick knacks in my house.

  Devin Townsend

  Song, Writing, House

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• A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Player, Self

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• I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

  Ben Whishaw

  Wizards, Littles, Troll

  "Ben Whishaw: Hold the front page" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2011.

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• If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.

  Michelangelo

  Country, Nurse, Atmosphere

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• A knick-knack is a thing that sits on top of a whatnot.

  Oliver Hardy

  Knicks

  "Fictional character: Ollie". "Block-Heads", www.imdb.com. 1938.

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• You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You'll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.

  Grantland Rice

  Sports, Moving, Practice

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• I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

  Johnny Vegas

  Song, Clever, Pie

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• As he demonstrated with 'Juno' and 'Up in the Air,' Reitman has an uncanny knack among contemporary directors for tapping into the zeitgeist in dramatically satisfying ways.

  Lou Lumenick

  Air, Directors, Way

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• Empowerment is constantly challenging oneself with something difficult that tests his power of nerve, knack, skill, aptitude, attitude and wisdom to do things diligently, delightfully but differently.

  Anuj

  Attitude, Skills, Challenges

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• My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.

  Rory McIlroy

  Dad, Swings, Two

  "McIlroy a Master in the making when he thinks outside The Box". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2009.

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• Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Simple, Illusion, Tricks

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.179

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• I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, College, Two

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• I don't think anyone enjoys raising money, but for some reason I seem to have a knack...

  Louis Susman

  Thinking, Reason, Raising Money

  "Profile: Louis Susman, Obama's pick for ambassador to the UK" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2009.

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• I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about.

  Bob Colacello

  Italian, Thinking, People

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• It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?

  May Sarton

  Looks, Were Meant To Be, Meant To Be Alone

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• Life and business are rather simple after all-to make a success of either, you've got to hang on to the knack of putting yourself into the other person's place.

  William Wrigley, Jr.

  Life, Success, Science

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• The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind.

  Criss Jami

  Creativity, Mind, Ingredients

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.44, Criss Jami

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• When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French.

  Orson Scott Card

  Drunk

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.124, Macmillan

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• When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.

  Cesar Pelli

  School, Design, Architecture

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• I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.

  Adam Kluger

  School, World, Sides

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• The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Inspiration, Journey

  "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration", www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

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• Some people have a knack, for example, of being able to tell when someone's lying to them. They may not know what the truth is, but they can tell when someone is trying to lead them astray or sell them something shady. I think he had that ability to an amazing degree. I also think he thought, without saying it explicitly, that you can convince a crowd of something that's not true more easily than you can one person at a time.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Book, Thinking

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• As I grew older I found that I really had a knack for rhyming and I pursued that. So by thirteen I got serious about using my writing and rhyming skills. I did it everywhere I could.

  LeCrae

  Writing, Skills, Rhyming

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