Tricky Quotes - Page 4

• Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.

  Faith Sullivan

  Feelings, Chemistry, Ifs

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• While the romance genre has expanded so much over the years, in an odd way it's also narrowed, with too many people trying to stick stories into tight, well-defined marketing niches. It can, admittedly, be a tricky balancing act, but I believe the key is to be able to step back and take a long hard look at what you do well, what makes your work different from other writers, what feels the most natural to you when you're writing.

  JoAnn Ross

  Believe, Writing, Keys

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• An angel's face is tricky to wear constantly.

  Tori Amos

  Angel, Faces

  Song: Purple People

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• When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out of vanity, or you tend to be indiscriminate about it. I mean, in the old days, it was tricky, you had to go to various encyclopedias, you had to go to the library, maybe spend a day there, whatever. But in the end, if you found something, it was really exciting. Now you hit a couple of buttons and you get some information. Which, by the way, is almost always presented in that same goddamn mediocre style that characterizes the Internet for me. It is slightly deadening.

  Norman Mailer

  Couple, Mean, Vanity

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• This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster.

  Frances Perkins

  Believe, Mean, People

  Frances Perkins (2011). “The Roosevelt I Knew”, p.104, Penguin

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• I have to say, our kind of music was always a struggle live. Quiet vocals and really loud drums and guitars, it was quite tricky. It still can be. I'm slightly amazed that other bands say that, because I'm still like, "Oh God, what am I doing?"

  Miki Berenyi

  Struggle, Quiet, Kind

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• It's a tricky one when you're playing somebody who is mad. There's often the big actor's question, if you're playing a part like that: do you take it to be an internalized thing, pull the audience in, or do you go full-out, and kind of present it as quite a shocking thing?

  Keira Knightley

  Mad, Kind, Audience

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Things either become unclear in a story or they're just ambiguous with no real point. So defined gray area with clarity that also works in the narrative, that's tricky.

  Annette Bening

  Real, Clarity, Ambiguous

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Whatever you have in your show should be special, but not over the top to the point that it takes the focus away from the collection. After all, the clothes are the most important. But I don't see why I shouldn't do something that makes people smile: they are three weeks into fashion weeks, they are running all over the place, so there's no harm to coming to a show and being entertained. Of course, it has to work with the concept of the collection, it can be tricky but I know where to stop.

  Manish Arora

  Running, Fashion, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you do believe in science, you really have to actually stand up and make a stand for it. You can't just say, the facts aren't in. Science is always looking for better explanations to everything, but that doesn't mean that when we get on a plane we don't know what's supposed to happen next. And if it doesn't go the way that it's planned, that's a big, big problem. The culture wars are very tricky and make me a little sad.

  John Flansburgh

  War, Believe, Mean

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I started doing community theater when I was seven and I think the intent was just expression. When you're a musician, you can make music in your room, and when you're a writer, you can write. Acting is one of the tricky art forms where you need a certain amount of permission to be able to do it. You can talk to yourself in the mirror, but it's different than actually acting or doing a scene. You need an audience and you need someone else to do it with.

  Ari Graynor

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used to stop me from going out at night because you'd go someplace and your clothes would reek and you wouldn't enjoy the experience and that affects your rights. It's always a question. Whenever you are talking about these issues, it's not a question of restricting rights. It's a question of restricting whose rights, and providing for whose rights and that's a tricky balance.

  Ian Bremmer

  Night, People, Appreciate

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I had to be careful. A mistake I made when I submitted ideas initially was that one of them was too much like Elephant and Piggie, thinking that was what it needed to be. That's not what Mo was looking for. But I did definitely keep them in the back of my mind. It was tricky. Like Mo Willems was saying, it had to be something that Elephant and Piggie would like to read, yet we shouldn't make anything that was too much like Elephant and Piggie, because why would you want to do that?

  Laurie Keller

  Mistake, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Once I came out in college I just have always been out and at work with pretty much everybody. My wife and I both working as journalists, because she's a photographer, and often working together, would have to kind of navigate this weird world. When you're trying to develop sources, when you're trying to you know make personal connections with people, you inevitably want to share things about yourself and that can be really tricky.

  Lydia Polgreen

  College, Wife, People

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• English can be tricky because there are so many false cognates, but sometimes, as long the idea conveyed is not wrong, these false cognates can themselves offer synonyms or lead to a better alternative word or phrase in translation.

  Adam Morris

  Long, Sometimes, Synonym

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you have a ton of counterpoints, complex harmony, all these tricky things going on, it makes things less accessible to people.

  John Paesano

  People, Harmony

  Source: collider.com

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• We know there's a clear gap in fairness. There just is in equity. In a lot of ways, economically, racially, blah, blah, blah. It just is. Not blaming anybody, it just is. So then you say, that can be interpreted and misinterpreted and used by a lot of different people. Some people run for office; some people try to gain influence. I generally believe all that's true. It's just, which one is the person who is accurately turning that dial and which one is using it as bullshit and lies? So, this is a tricky area to step into.

  Michael Keaton

  Running, Lying, Believe

  Source: collider.com

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• This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Feminist, Allies, Losing

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• The work that we do is so tricky because it rests on our shoulders, but it's also collaborative and part of it is trusting the people that you're working with.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  People, Shoulders

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

  Adam McKay

  Expectations, Perception, Comedy

  Source: filmschoolrejects.com

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• Elephant Man [movie] was much more difficult physically. This had a couple of days. It was quite tricky. I had my leg strapped up behind me and I am a little older now. It was all marvelous, though. He [Bong Joon-ho] is one of the most fabulous directors in the world.

  John Hurt

  Couple, Men, Elephants

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• It's tricky because Instagram is not Grindr. I'm always trying to show my good side. I never complain. When I have a moment of sadness, I make sure no one ever sees. And while I'm so good at talking to friends or talking about my job, if you were to ask me to dinner - just the two of us, in a romantic way - I would be the worst. I'm so shy I would not talk.

  Olivier Rousteing

  Sadness, Trying, Complaining

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right. If they have a preconceived notion about the role and it goes against my instinct, unless it makes sense to me, it often throws off what I'm trying to do. Though sometimes they have an insight that I don't because they've been living with the script. I don't have one feeling or another about notes, but it is always a little bit of a red alert when I get one in an audition.

  Lance Reddick

  Feelings, Trying, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is a community in hip-hop. It doesn't seem like that anywhere else, except maybe in punk rock. But punk rock is tricky, because it has become such a pop thing. But in rap, there is still a feeling of community. Who are our peers? Rappers.

  Ad-Rock

  Rap, Community, Feelings

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• It's a tricky time because people are going after the wrong people, too. There's a misplaced rage and aggression, that as a person in a public position you almost feel like you have to be perfect now when you express yourself. It feels almost unfortunate.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  People, Perfect, Like You

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