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• I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Different, Crafts

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• The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions; the trick to living alone up here, away from all agitating entanglements, allurements, and expectations, apart especially from one's own intensity, is to organize the silence, to think of its mountaintop plenitude as capital, silence as wealth exponentially increasing. The encircling silence as your chosen source of advantage and your only intimate.

  Philip Roth

  Pain, Thinking, People

  Philip Roth (2000). “The Human Stain: A Novel”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My experience in work, even going to work with Scorsese, is that people always think there's some magic trick. There's no magic trick. The people who are really good at what they do do simple things really, really well.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Simple, Thinking, People

  "Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, and Jared Leto Had to Make Fast Choices for 'Dallas Buyers Club'". Interview with Daniel Holloway, www.backstage.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Children, Israel, Dinner

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• Whenever you take over something that is popular and has a fanatical following that loves it, you're never going to please everyone. The trick is to have enough wherewithal to follow through with what you want to do with it and give it time to evolve.

  Jon Stewart

  Giving, Want, Enough

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• There's a joke in everything, the trick is finding it. The best compliment a joke can get is what Huxley said about Darwin's theory of evolution - 'Why didn't I think of that?'

  Emo Philips

  Thinking, Theory Of Evolution, Compliment

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• When players go out and train on their own, they usually do it at half speed. This kind of training is valuable, but it doesn't prepare you for competition, where you must perform at full throttle. So the trick is to schedule regular sessions of intense practice, while always leaving time to juggle and generally goof around with the ball

  Mia Hamm

  Player, Practice, Usa

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• To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about... And the doctor said, Don't worry, in three months you'll know. So I went about my business and then, one day, it jumped me. I couldn't get up... Your muscles trick you; they did me.

  Richard Pryor

  Doctors, Talking, Worry

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• I've seen the end of the universe, and it happens to be in the United States and, oddly enough, it's in Houston, Texas. I know - I was shocked, too. Imagine my surprise when I left a comedy club one day and walked to the end of the block, and there on one corner was a Starbucks, and across the street from that Starbucks, in the exact same building as that Starbucks, there was - a Starbucks. I looked back and forth, thinking the sun was playing tricks with my eyes. That there was a Starbucks across from a Starbucks - and that, my friends, is the end of the universe.

  Lewis Black

  Block, Eye, Thinking

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• You might be a redneck if your grandfather completely executes the pull my finger trick at the family reunion.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Grandfather, Might

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• I'd like to have a kid, and I'd like to be driving around. I know a kid is going to be a big part of my life. I can trust my kid. I know my kid would be in the backseat of my car, and when I say You wanna get some ice-cream? he's going to be happy. My brother has kids. I see that trick work, the ice cream trick.

  Adam Sandler

  Brother, Kids, Ice Cream

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• If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.

  Errol Morris

  Needs, Want, Way

  "Photography as a Weapon". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 11, 2008.

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• Being the executive producer of a film is not that difficult. It just means that you have some power. There's not a huge amount of skill involved, I don't know how much I'm giving away here. I feel like that guy on Fox, giving away the magicians' tricks. It's not rocket science, being an executive producer of a film.

  Craig Ferguson

  Mean, Skills, Giving

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• Donald Trump is using an age-old trick of right wing populism, much like George Wallace, much like Joe McCarthy, Pitchfork Ben Tillman who in the 1880s and `90s was a rabid hateful racists who whipped up hate and hysteria for his own political benefit.

  Keith Ellison

  Hate, Wings, Hysteria

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I always say that I love magic but I hate magicians. I like being fooled. If you wave your hands in front of my face and I think you're doing a trick, I'm easily impressed. If you pull a quarter out of my ear, I'm quite certain you're a wizard. But I don't like the way most magicians don't act like they're magical; they act like show business dicks.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hate, Thinking, Hands

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• ... any dodge, or trick, or conjuration of any kind is open to the photographer's use so that it belongs to his art and is not false to nature. If the dodges, tricks, etc., lead the photographer astray, so much the worse for him; if they do not assist him to represent nature, he is not fit to use them. It is not the fault of the dodges, it is the fault of the bungler.

  Henry Peach Robinson

  Art, Use, Etc

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• I'm not going to lie: There are times I play mind tricks on myself, like that the french fries are poison. With desserts, I'll let myself have just one bite, but I'll look like a freak when I'm eating it, like when I did Duncan Hines commercials as a kid, just savoring every morsel.

  Fergie

  Lying, Kids, Play

  ELLE Intreview, www.elle.com. April 7, 2010.

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• A technique is a trick that works.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Technique

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• My favorite party trick is to wear nothing but a gold thong in the house.

  Harry Styles

  Party, House, Gold

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• While everyone else was saying Trick or Treat my dad was telling us to say Triki Tras.

  Felipe Esparza

  Dad, Treats, Trick Or Treat

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• The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was the quarter from behind the ear gag. He would never put the time in.

  Gary Gulman

  Devil, Ears, Quarters

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• No matter what tricks you use or what decisions you make, go easy on yourself as someone who's on a never-ending quest for improvement.

  Chris Hardwick

  Decisions You Make, Use, Quests

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.52, Penguin

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• If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony. I would rather walk away and do more movies, comedy and even some dramatic roles.

  Carlos Mencia

  Mind, Roles, Ponies

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• With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained

  Maika Monroe

  Land, World, Lost

  "Maika Monroe" by Mark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2013.

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• The trick isn't so much creating the right thing; the trick is finding the right networks.

  Jonah Peretti

  Creating, Findings, Right Thing

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