Tricks Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• I don't get a chance to cry that often on film, so I was hoping that talent would come my way, that day. I cheated, I guess, when I just started looking at my technology device - my iPhone - to look at pictures of my kids, before I did the scene where I had to cry. That was a good trick that I found.

  Jason Bateman

  Kids, Technology, Iphone

  "Jason Bateman Talks Disconnect, Cyber-Bullying, His Feelings about Technology, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 11, 2013.

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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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• 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 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 tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

  Mason Cooley

  Hero, Winning, Play

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• Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and surprising but always responsible, no tricks for tricks' sake; so satisfying, with its shifting and puzzles. So much fiction turns out to be diversion, in spite of fancy claims, and doesn't really look at anything. Well - this does.

  Alice Munro

  Luck, Doe, Looks

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• It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.

  William Shakespeare

  England, Common, Good Things

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [244]

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• I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.

  William Herschel

  Play, Telescopes, Lasts

  "The Herschel Chronicle: the Life-story of William Herschel and his Sister". Book by Constance Anne Lubbock, Caroline Herschel, 102, 1933.

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• The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

  Horatio Nelson

  Mean, People, Would Be

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.88, Cambridge University Press

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• Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, 'It's business.' That is, 'it's business' has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.

  Ida Tarbell

  Business, People, Special

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• Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

  Josh Billings

  Doubt, Doe, Cards

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• Had I not gone through the ordeal, in more than one country, of landing a job, I would he tempted to lose patience over the number of letters pouring in from fellows who want me or someone else to hand them a job on a silver platter with a guarantee that they will receive the wonderful promotion their talents warrant.... But a tragic number of young men and even older men have a notion that it is not up to them to prosecute the bettering process. They look to someone else to perform the trick for them.

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, Jobs, Men

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• One of the tricks of this business is, keep your losses down.

  Walter Schloss

  Loss, Investing, Values

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• How you prepare for a role is entirely your business in my point of view. There is little enough mystery anymore left in the world in the part of our profession, which should be clouded in mystery because it isn't in the public. You don't want the magician to show his tricks or how he did them do you? So I do think that is a very private thing that we actors should protect ourselves from.

  Christopher Plummer

  Thinking, Views, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• Being a singer, being a performer, you have tricks, somehow, to calm yourself when things feel a little overwhelming. I don't do breathing exercises, per se, but I definitely have to have a sort of internal word with myself before things got completely out of hand and I fainted on the floor.

  Shirley Manson

  Exercise, Hands, Breathing

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I would tell any actress that the trick is to play all the female characters on your show, and then all the men are yours.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Character, Men, Play

  "Sarah Michelle Gellar Interview RINGER; Compares Her Return to TV to BUFFY Experience". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Meaningful rules in the consumer credit market can accelerate economic recovery. Rules would increase consumer confidence and, more importantly, weed out all the tricks and traps that sap families of billions of dollars annually.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Meaningful, Weed, Recovery

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• My method seems to change to everything, especially when you get older. You have more of a resonance to be able to grab to. When you're younger, you have these big boundaries because you don't know how to get you to where you are. When you get older, you have a few tricks that you can pull off.

  Jason Patric

  Able, Boundaries, Method

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• Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds later they come alight again, well the other day there was a fire at the factory that makes them.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Couple, Humor

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• It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be spitting any back out (good or bad)? I can't even imagine trying to write without reading. Really, I can hardly write a novel at all if I'm not reading just book after book.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: lbc.typepad.com

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• Sink or swim! You never really feel ready, there is always sometime more that your mind tells you you should be doing. However, the trick is to be able to show up and perform no matter what the circumstance.

  Natalie Cook

  Swim, Mind, Matter

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• Two Drink Mike enjoys dancing and knows a magic trick. Whereas, No Drink Mike enjoys biographies, and has serious opinions on wildlife. And Five Drink Mike... dances with wildlife.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.

  Sam Altman

  Execution

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, genius.com. September 25, 2014.

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• I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is just trying to figure out when. And when I say silence, I suppose I actually meant erasure - poetry is a force against that, I think, or it should be.

  Cornelius Eady

  Thinking, Silence, Enemy

  "Breaking into Song: An Interview with Cornelius Eady". Interview with Alexis Orgera, www.anmly.org.

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