Tricky Quotes - Page 9

• I think testing films are a great tool. And I think showing them to people that you value their opinion is important, but once you give over to what reviewers think, that's tricky. You don't know what their agenda is; it's so subjective. You have got to make sure you are asking someone's opinion who you know.

  Bradley Cooper

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "In Conversation With Bradley Cooper". Interview with Askmen, me.askmen.com.

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• We're living in a very tricky world, and unless we become analytical and expose the tricknology, people will become sucked into that. It is very easy, it is very, very easy.

  Assata Shakur

  People, World, Easy

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• When I'm following someone, I'm listening to a bear bell strapped to their packs. When I'm leading on a climb, like on a rock, I like to feel my way through it on my own, so I know the tricky moves and where to place gear.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Moving, Rocks, Listening

  Source: www.summitdaily.com

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• So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.

  Alexander Eliot

  Art, Brain, Restoration

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• Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages you have to be prepared to let anything happen and to get it wrong or go off track. The development of a character is not smooth or simple - it is as tricky as meeting someone new whom you would like to know better.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Character, Simple

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• The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and from my point of view, one doesn't give or receive - that's a role we have to play. But the gift - it's God's gift. I think that it's better to be souls than roles.

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  Ram Dass

  Heart, Thinking, Views

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• Anger is a handy term and words are tricky, as we know. What one man perceives as anger, another person - in my case the deliverer of material - is, "Don't you see it, don't you see how badly you're doing?" It's like shaking a child - which you're not supposed to do.

  George Carlin

  Children, Men, Cases

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it. It's tricky and definitely a requires striking a delicate balance.

  John Dyer Baizley

  Art, Balance, Albums

  "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

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• You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty?

  Alan Titchmarsh

  I Like You, Grateful, People

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

  Voltaire

  Men, Weakness, Envious

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• I don't have any tricky plays. I'd rather have tricky players.

  Abe Lemons

  Player, Play

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• Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.

  Kevin Barry

  Long, Raindrops, Might

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• You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

  Tony Blair

  Media, Creative, Healthy

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• Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

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• The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.

  Vera Farmiga

  Believe, Limelight, Isolated

  "A Film of One's Own". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. September 3, 2006.

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• I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.

  Craig Ferguson

  Train Wrecks, Who I Am, Trying

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• Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

  James Franco

  Acting, Film, Reviews

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• Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

  Steven Morrissey

  Snakes, Ladders

  "'Somebody has to be me'". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2004.

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• Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.

  Joe Murray

  Thinking, Healthy, Would Be

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• That's the tricky thing about being bonded to someone for life. Blake and his dad are bonded like I'm bonded with Erin. We're irrevocably tied together by history, a history that can never be erased. Even if you want to deny it, even it you want to pretend it never existed, it will always be a part of you. It will always, in some way, define who you are.

  Susane Colasanti

  Dad, Together, Want

  Susane Colasanti (2010). “Something Like Fate”, p.154, Penguin

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• I've gone through various periods with superheroes. They work in the right hands, but they don't work in other hands. It's tricky. But any movie is tricky. It's impossible to say, 'This is what you do in any situation.

  John Carpenter

  Hands, Superhero, Gone

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• Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.

  Jack Newfield

  Sober, Judgment, Controversial

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• The main line of the Yugoslav Attack has become just too vast for most players to study in depth, and anyone intending to venture into such tricky waters needs to have an intimate knowledge of all the hidden reefs.

  John Nunn

  Player, Water, Depth

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• You'll drive yourself crazy if you start trying to pry the meaning out of every gust of wind or rain squall. I'm not denying that there might actually be a few signs that you won't want to miss. Knowing the difference is the tricky part.

  David Eddings

  Crazy, Rain, Wind

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• Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.

  Robert Redford

  Success, Nice, Mistress

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