Tricks Quotes - Page 12

• Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

  Carson McCullers

  Death, Gamer, Sleeves

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

  John Tillotson

  Truth, Lying, Men

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• What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

  David Copperfield

  Emotional, Giving, Magic

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• If people are fans of 'Mindfreak,' they are going to be so excited with 'Believe.' They are actually going to see those illusions that people think can only happen with trick photography.

  Criss Angel

  Photography, Believe, Thinking

  "Exclusive: Backstage interview with Criss Angel as Believe is moved to Halloween". Interview with Robin Leach, lasvegassun.com. September 18, 2008.

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• You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.

  Aaron Stanford

  Long, Challenges, Actors

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• I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when youre in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. Its a great trick.

  Stephan Pastis

  Years, Law, Done

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• Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Generosity, Giving

  "Writer and fighter" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2008.

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• The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.

  Eugene Ionesco

  People, Insanity, Trying

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• I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did magic tricks, cards tricks and I played the banjo.

  Steve Martin

  Order, Magic, Cards

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.

  Jeff Merkley

  Long, Cards, Credit

  "Elizabeth Warren Is the Right Person for the Job" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2010.

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• All human existence is a trick of light.

  Don DeLillo

  Light, Existence, Humans

  Don DeLillo (2011). “The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• Learning a [skateboard] trick is kind of like a puzzle; you have to keep trying, and trying, and trying, and adapting and changing, and adapting and changing, and finally it works.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Trying, Kind, Puzzles

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• Just like every kid who comes into show business on some level, I used to put shows on in my basement. I even started with doing tricks and having a ventriloquist dummy.

  Don Scardino

  Kids, Levels, Used

  Source: collider.com

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• What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party--any party at all--until it is all over and the lightsare being put out?... I suppose that part of this mania for staying is due to a fear that, if I go, something good will happen and I'll miss it. Somebody might do card tricks, or shoot somebody else.

  Robert Benchley

  Party, Missing, Curiosity

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• The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Discipline, Enough

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• As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the mighty conqueror of all he beholds.... As long as mother sticks around in the wings, the mighty acrobat confidently performs his trick of twirling in circles, walking on tiptoe, jumping, climbing, staring, naming. He is joyous, filled with his grandeur and wondrous omnipotence.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Omnipotence, Circles

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• Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Believe, Hands

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• The trick is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask. What I try to do is just painting and sketching some of the sounds without obliterating my own voice.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Voice, Trying, Sound

  "The World's Fastest Indian - Anthony Hopkins interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I always believe that if you feel good and look happy, you're always going to be beautiful. My one actual beauty trick is pretty cliche: Never, ever go to bed with your makeup on.

  Joyce Giraud

  Beautiful, Believe, Makeup

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• It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.

  Jodie Foster

  Moving, Intelligent, Emotional

  "Comic-Con: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley Talk About Their Characters and the Themes of ELYSIUM". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.

  Christina Stead

  Wizards, Finance, Asks

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are or what else you are doing or whether anyone pays any heed.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Pay, Matter

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is objectionable.

  Joshua K. Ingalls

  Law, Class, Competition

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• The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give... Win or lose the game is finished.  It's over.  It's time to forget and prepare for the next one.

  Sparky Anderson

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

  Sparky Anderson (1991). “Sparky!”, Prentice Hall

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• The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Real, Interesting, Way

  Source: collider.com

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