Tricky Quotes - Page 3

• Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.

  Anne Lamott

  Loss, People, Alive

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• With the Tonys it's a little tricky because a lot of the funnier jokes are more insider, so people watching at home may not get a Julie Taymor reference the way that New Yorkers would. So you have to figure out what comedy plays to a large audience and still respect the individuals who are there.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Home, Play, People

  "Tonys 2012: Q&A with Neil Patrick Harris on Eve of His Hosting Three-peat". Interview with David Rooney, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 6, 2012.

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• You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Vanity, Fiction

  David Foster Wallace (2014). “The David Foster Wallace Reader”, Hachette UK

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• I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

  Jane Asher

  Jazz, Modern

  "Portrait of the artist: Jane Asher, actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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• So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

  Bill Bruford

  Technique, Classic, Holes

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• It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.

  Lili Taylor

  Plastic, Plastic Surgery, Surgery

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• All in all, we might think we like choice, but the question of which choices count and which do not is very, very tricky.

  Kent Greenfield

  Thinking, Choices, Might

  Kent Greenfield (2011). “The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits”, p.10, Yale University Press

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• When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.

  Laura Carmichael

  Thinking, Helping, Situation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

  Candace Bushnell

  Long, Challenges, Tvs

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• I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because in production, you have to make the language lift off the page. But a good actor can turn it into human speech. I err sometimes toward having such a compound of images that if an actor lands heavily on each one, you never pull through to a larger idea. That's a problem for the audience. But I come to playwriting from the visual world - I used to be a painter. I also really love novels and that use of language. But it's tricky to ask that of the theatre.

  Ellen McLaughlin

  Writing, Order, Land

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• Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

  Ewan McGregor

  Deals, Personal Life

  "New Again: Ewan McGregor". Interview with Todd Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 25, 2012.

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• Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Boys, Men, Choices

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• It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Yield, Energy

  "Elon Musk on rockets, sports cars, and solar power". Interview with Michael Kanellos, www.cnet.com. February 15, 2008.

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• I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.

  Judit Polgar

  Women, Player, Careers

  "The Beauty of Chess Tricks" by Lubomir Kavalek, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Corina Bartra is a very intriguing singer. On Son Zumbon ... the music utilizes tricky rhythms, the leader's haunting voice, and plenty of short solos. There is no lack on intensity in this program.

  Scott Yanow

  Son, Voice, Leader

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• Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and imagination she had from the beginning into wisdom and a clearsightedness that reaches past sympathy.

  Tom Shippey

  Clever, Past, Imagination

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• Me and Tricky like playing with each other.

  Braith Anasta

  Rugby League, League, Rugby

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• You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly.

  Christopher Moore

  Differences, Trying, Morality

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Practical Demonkeeping”, p.93, Zondervan

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• Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Brain, Neuroplasticity, Computer

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• I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

  Rainn Wilson

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Rainn Wilson: I believe in education, not handouts". Interview with Sonya Hamasaki, www.cnn.com. October 17, 2011.

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• Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.

  Maurice Sendak

  Childhood

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• It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Character, Exercise, Tough

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• Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me.

  Jason Reitman

  Character, People, Kind

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• Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Positive, Zero, Health

  "P.J. O'Rourke Takes On 'The Wealth of Nations'". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 8, 2007.

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• Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what’s difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That’s very tricky.

  Tori Amos

  Thinking, Careers, Two

  "Tori Amos’ ‘Night Of Hunters’ Examines Broken Relationship". Interview with Deborah Finding, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2011.

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