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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more than fidelity, consolation, and companionship. They offer comedy, irony, wit, and a wealth of anecdotes, the "shaggy dog stories" and "stupid pet tricks" that are commonplace pleasures of life.

  Marjorie Garber

  Dog, Stupid, Believe

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• It's quite a trick to use three instruments to tell the story of two people, but Vores carried it off; three, for once, is not a crowd. Each member of the trio gets important solos, but there is also a real ensemble character.

  Richard Dyer

  Real, Character, Two

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• What's the difference between a Dice Clay concert and a Klan rally? Nothing. Trick question.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Differences, Clay, Dice

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• No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!

  Rumi

  Giving Up, Would Be, Purpose

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• So after those Games, I continued to compete that season and the year after that. I really had the goal of being intentional. I didn't want to do big tricks because it was an X Games final or an Olympics final. I wanted to call my own shots. I started to do that and I started to have more fun than I ever knew I could have.

  Kelly Clark

  Fun, Years, Games

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• For me, a great show is when there's a great rapport with the band and the audience, and we're all really into it. The first trick is to bring the audience into the band, break the ice, have a life, and be one, so you can enjoy the next hour and a half together.

  Andy Summers

  Ice, Together, Band

  Source: collider.com

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• The definition of investment is the deferring ofpresent consumption for future consumption. So, you dohave to be willing to defer. And there are a couple of tricks that you can use to save money. One of them is simply to pay yourself first.

  William J. Bernstein

  Couple, Use, Definitions

  "A Young Person's Guide To Getting Rich Slowly". Interview with Robin Young, www.npr.org. June 16, 2014.

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• The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style - all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

  E. B. White

  Simplicity, Style, Beginners

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.190, Cornell University Press

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• I wanted my first novel to be a veritable infarct of narrative cloggers-the trick being to feel your way through each clog by blowing it up until its obstructiveness finally reveals not blank mass but unlooked-for seepage points of passage.

  Nicholson Baker

  Narrative, Way, Firsts

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.77, Vintage

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• The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

  Henry James

  Girl, Imagination, Good Man

  Henry James (2016). “Henry James: The Complete Novels [The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, etc.] (Book House)”, p.886, Book House

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• With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

  James Cook

  Medicine, Waiting, Treatment

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• The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach yourself anything. Librarians are key, I think. They hold the power to empower.

  Jane Cleland

  Reading, Thinking, Keys

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• I think it is undeniably true that the human brain must work in models. The trick is to have your brain work better than the other person's brain because it understands the most fundamental models- ones that will do most work per unit.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Brain, Fundamentals

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• One of the dangers about net-net investing is that if you buy a net-net that begins to lose money your net-net goes down and your capacity to be able to make a profit becomes less secure. So the trick is not necessarily to predict what the earnings are going to be but to have a clear conviction that the company isn't going bust and that your margin of safety will remain intact over time.

  Peter Cundill

  Safety, Investing, Down And

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