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• This love was tricky...was it simply better somehow? Because these humans could hate with so much fury, was the other end of the spectrum that they could love with more heart and zeal and fire?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hate, Heart, Fire

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• So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

  Rachel True

  Respect, Black, Lucky

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• The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.

  Northrop Frye

  Character, Tennessee, Kind

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.449, University of Toronto Press

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• Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable.

  Dorie Greenspan

  Real, People, Complicated

  Dorie Greenspan (2014). “Baking Chez Moi: Recipes from My Paris Home to Your Home Anywhere”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Paul's One Way Out is a fresh, intelligently arranged, and satisfyingly complete telling of the lengthy (and unlikely) history of the group that almost singlehandedly brought rock up to a level of jazz-like sophistication and virtuosity, introducing it as a medium worthy of the soloist's art. Oral histories can be tricky things: either penetrating, delivering information and backstories that get to the heart of how timeless music was made. Or too often, they lie flat on the page, a random retelling of repeated facts and reheated yarns. I'm happy to say that Paul's is in that first category.

  Ashley Kahn

  Art, Lying, Rocks

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• It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host It's a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it.

  Mike Rowe

  Jobs, Real, Dirty

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• The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Powerful, Science, Tools

  Benoit B. Mandelbrot (2013). “Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. Selecta Volume E”, p.16, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.

  Brian Herbert

  Flower, Opportunity, Tiny

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson (2010). “Dune: The Butlerian Jihad”, p.135, Macmillan

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• Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.

  Sylvia Plath

  Growing Up, World, Littles

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.114, Hamilton Books

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• Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history, at the continuing impact of colonization, and at the biting knowledge that living as an exile in one's own land necessitates. . . . Certainly the time frame we presently inhabit has much that is shabby and tricky to offer; and much that needs to be treated with laughter and ironic humor.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Laughter, Land, Impact

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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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• [Global-warming debate] some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Climate, Campaigns, Kind

  "Will Russia's Heat Wave End Its Global-Warming Doubts?" by Simon Shuster, content.time.com. August 2, 2010.

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• Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

  Barbara Kruger

  Differences, Doubt, Belief

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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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• It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

  Joel Edgerton

  Attitude, Tree, Way

  "Enjoying life on 'the list'" by Giles Hardie, www.smh.com.au. April 13, 2012.

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• There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people.

  David Nabarro

  Government, People, Challenges

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• Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.

  Emir Kusturica

  Basketball, Beautiful, Country

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• I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.

  Oren Peli

  Drama, Character, Thinking

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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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• Me and Tricky like playing with each other.

  Braith Anasta

  Rugby League, League, Rugby

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• I'm the son of a newsman, I grew up around news, so I can understand the issue, which is that papers are losing subscribers and they're getting less and less outlets... it's a tricky thing. You're going to have to sell papers. The problem is, there's so little reporting anymore.

  George Clooney

  Son, Issues, News

  "The Men Who Stare At Goats - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.

  John Slattery

  Fall, Character, Play

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

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• One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.

  Shawn Ryan

  Running, Stars, Tv Shows

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

  Lili Taylor

  Plastic, Plastic Surgery, Surgery

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