Tricks Quotes - Page 39

• The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

  Ben Kingsley

  Character, Men, Trying

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• Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on. . . But you've got to begin. . . You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Money, Play, Done

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1605, Simon and Schuster

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• Don Juan assured me that in order to accomplish the feat of making myself miserable I had to work in the most intense fashion, and that it was absurd. I had now realized I could work just the same in making myself complete and strong. "The trick is in what one emphasizes," he said. "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

  Carlos Castaneda

  Fashion, Strong, Order

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• You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• Can't keep you home, you're messin' around, my best friend told me you're the best trick in town.

  Ian Hunter

  Friendship, Home, My Best Friend

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• I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of weariness overwhelms me and I don't know what's the matter. That is, I know but I won't admit it. I'm just tired from writing. As you get older, writing becomes harder. By that I mean you see so many more potentialities. Things like transition used to trouble me. But not any more. When I say it's harder, I'm not talking about facility. You learn all the so-called tricks, but then you don't want to use them.

  John Steinbeck

  Running, Writing, Tired

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• Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.

  Calista Flockhart

  Nice, Thinking, Issues

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• If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.

  Al Sharpton

  Loss, Media, Black Youth

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• I've had dreams about tricks.

  Shaun White

  Dream

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• I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

  Sam Mendes

  Style, Bags, Use

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• Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.

  Michael Azerrad

  Rocks, Sound, Use

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• When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks.

  Richard Beymer

  Next, Exciting, Magician

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• My hairstylist taught me a trick for my hair. You section off your hair and put them up in these crazy little knots and then it looks like you curled your hair. It's saved me so much time 'cause on the road you don't have time or plugs to plug your curling iron in.

  Sara Bareilles

  Crazy, Hair, Iron

  "Sara Bareilles' New Album!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2010.

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• Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.

  Brad Bird

  Couple, Littles, Unexpected

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• When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.

  Jennifer Beals

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Girlfriend, Fun, Years

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

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• A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.

  Billy Campbell

  Lying, Self, Challenges

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.

  Harry Anderson

  Magic, Cards, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

  Julie Delpy

  Drama, Warrior, People

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• A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Directors, Actors, Littles

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

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• Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.

  Grant Bowler

  Drama, Layers, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

  Robert Englund

  Wise, Horror, Modern

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

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• Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.

  Daniel Craig

  Business, Trying, Suits

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• The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

  Bram Cohen

  Want, Problem, Programming

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• Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built into the very nature of growth and life. Growth can become over-growth, life 'hyper-life' ... The paradox of an illness which can present as wellness - as a wonderful feeling of health and well-being, and only later reveal its malignant potentials - is one of the chimaeras, tricks and ironies of nature.

  Oliver Sacks

  Health, Feelings, Growth

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