Tricky Quotes - Page 14

• I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.

  Cher Lloyd

  Song, Trying, Sound

  "17 Minutes With Cher Lloyd". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. June 18, 2012.

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• A novel is a tricky thing to map.

  Reif Larsen

  Maps, Novel

  Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.49, Penguin

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• A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten.

  Alice Hoffman

  Blood, Sorrow, Done

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• I am a firm believer in eating a full plant-based, whole food diet that can expand your life length and make you an all-around happier person. It is tricky dining out, but I just stick to what I know - veggies, fruit and salad - then when I get home I'll have something else.

  Ariana Grande

  Home, Dining, Salad

  "Ariana Grande: 'I love animals more than I love most people, not kidding'". Interview with Lyndsey Gilmour, www.mirror.co.uk. December 5, 2014.

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• I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

  John Perry Barlow

  Thinking, Giving, Intellectual

  "John Perry Barlow 2.0". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. August 1, 2004.

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• That’s why courage is tricky. Should you always do what others tell you to do? Sometimes you might not even know why you’re doing something. I mean, any fool can have courage. But honor, that’s the real reason you either do something or you don’t. It’s who you are and maybe who you want to be.

  Michael Oher

  Real, Mean, Honor

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• Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don't exist...

  Adam Gopnik

  Book, Kids, Long

  "The Dragon's Egg" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. December 5, 2011.

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• The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be able to convince the reader (and himself) that the wonders he is describing really can come true... and that gets tricky when you take a good, hard look at the world around you.

  Frederik Pohl

  Mean, Looks, Stories

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• In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Plato, Eye, Reality

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• [On Richard M. Nixon:] The Republican nominee would be far worse than another Eisenhower - he is Tricky Dicky of the first magnitude. His entire record is one of opportunism. I cannot feel that there is the remotest sincerity in him, and that clearly he would be the tool of the highest bidder, which is always 'big business.

  Marguerite Rawalt

  Would Be, Tools, Records

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• Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...Calonicé: And they are quite right, upon my word!Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming.Calonicé: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it.

  Aristophanes

  Sex, Husband, Children

  Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

  Nate Silver

  Trying

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• common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Common Sense, Instruments, Indispensable

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• Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring. ... It's the next best thing to being there.

  Ellyn Stern

  Caring, Guilt, Next

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• That's not an easy message to deliver whether it's in war and peace or in the economic arena, people don't want to be told that all their problems have been solved and everything good so it's a little bit tricky.

  Vin Weber

  Peace, War, People

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• Models have a stigma that they can't act. You're also, to be quite blunt, you're tall and not a lot of actors are tall and when you are starting out you're obviously not the first one cast, so you're trying to fit into a mold. You're quite often not cast as the quirky best friend, but you don't have the experience to be cast as the lead. So it can be really tricky. One of the biggest things is just to get your people, so to speak, your agents and managers to take you seriously. That's one of the issues I had when I came out to LA.

  Tricia Helfer

  People, Quirky, Trying

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It's always tricky to watch yourself, always. When I first had to watch myself, it was really hard because I'd done quite a few plays and I've never seen myself. So I was professional but I'd never watched myself. So I was like hearing you know... I'm sure you guys are all much more familiar with that because everybody has a phone, and everyone's taking pictures of themselves and making movies of themselves. And so people are more accustomed to it now. So I had to get used to it because there's a lot to be learned, of course, as an actor. When you watch yourself, you learn a lot.

  Annette Bening

  People, Guy, Done

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30s film or a movie of David's Lynch or some other director I love that could also make money, because that would say to the corporation, "Yes, you can make money and still do art." But it's tricky.

  Laura Dern

  Art, Style, Film

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• When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.

  Garry Kasparov

  Kings, School, Winning

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• Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky

  Liane Moriarty

  Falling In Love, Holding On, Easy

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• Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.

  David Foster Wallace

  Sometimes, Please, Invoke

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