Tricks Quotes - Page 18

• I think that fear came from, "Okay, I'm going to have Beyoncé in the title, and people are just going to think, it's Beyoncé poems. It's light and fun." I was kind of super-conscious of that. It's kind of like this weird trick I'm playing, where you're like, "What an interesting, fun cover, and then the name Beyoncé." Then you open it, and it's just about my depression. All of it belongs together.

  Morgan Parker

  Fun, Thinking, Light

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• Through Yoga, anybody can attain; it's a God realisation; you just practise Yoga and if you really mean it, then you'll do it. There's Yogis that have done it to such a degree that they're God, they're like Christ and they can walk on the water and materialise bodies and they can do all those tricks.

  George Harrison

  Yoga, Mean, Water

  Source: www.fifthestate.org

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• I think about how I conceptualize the audience. The trick is that they've got to be smarter and more worldly than me. So as I'm revising, I'm keeping that in mind. I cannot condescend, even a little bit. Every single choice that I make is motivated by that.

  George Saunders

  Thinking, Choices, Mind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to photographers, who are getting bored during the talks about the economics of the agency, to look through with a pen. They'll separate them in two piles. I started to find the core pictures that people seem to relate to.

  Peter van Agtmael

  Two, Agency, Bored

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• I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite your tongue and it ruins the experience.

  Tim Winton

  Squash, Green, Tongue

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree, that they aren't even considered victims. They aren't even considered at all. They're nothing. They don't count, they don't matter, they're commodities like TV sets and cellphones. We've actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes. It is the greatest magic trick ever performed.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Shoes, Magic

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• The Democrats can't lose on their own. There always has to be some trick.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Democrat, Loses

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel for some time that I couldn't stand certain films, certain modes, certain ways of telling a story, certain tricks of plot development, all of it predictable and useless.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Innovation, Plot, Stories

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• This is a typical liberal trick, by the way: Stack the deck so the whole thing fails leaving only one option, the government to go in to save the day.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Leaving, Typical

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• No matter how accomplished we may be, just any little white person can come up and say, 'Well, you wouldn't be here, if it weren't for Affirmative Action.' You put power in white people's hands, and then they use it against you. It's a trick bag.

  Shelby Steele

  Hands, White, People

  "Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can’t Win Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 27, 2008.

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• If you cannot always elicit a straight answer from the unconscious brain, how can you access its knowledge? Sometimes the trick is merely to probe what your gut is telling you. So the next time a friend laments that she cannot decide between two options, tell her the easiest way to solve her problem: flip a coin. She should specify which option belongs to heads and which to tails, and then let the coin fly. The important part is to assess her gut feeling after the coin lands. If she feels a subtle sense of relief at being "told" what to do by the coin, that's the right choice for her.

  David Eagleman

  Land, Two, Choices

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.

  Boy George

  Writing, Media, Levels

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I don't think that stability and the status quo go together at all, not in a flat world where people are integrated, where women are assuming new roles, where young people want to be consulted and participate. I think the trick is to open up, move down the path of reform, do it in a way that is consistent with your own society's stability and culture, and just don't think you can do nothing.

  Thomas Friedman

  Moving, Thinking, People

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• I need sometimes to hang back in the shadows with my pen and paper, and then other times, I need to take center stage in my own creations. The trick is to know when to hang back, and when to step forward. It's a perpetual ongoing balance.

  Allison Joseph

  Shadow, Balance, Ongoing

  Source: lunchticket.org

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• Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the free speech of people you either agree with or who don't particularly upset you. It's when people really upset you that you discover if you believe in free speech or not.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, People, Upset

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think the trick is that you have to change how you take stuff in. Maybe the early beginnings of a song come out in a subconscious way, but then you might have to crack it to a certain degree, where you might use parts of your brain that you don't normally use.

  Conor O'Brien

  Song, Thinking, Might Use

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have a few allies among weekly/monthly drama critics, and you sort of plot these things out and figure it out. But it's just what any writer goes through, periods of favor, periods of disfavor. And the trick is just to keep writing and to not let an obsession.

  Tony Kushner

  New York, Drama, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I feel like with Indy cars, you can just show up - if you are equipped to build and make a nice car, then you could be competitive. But in NASCAR I don't see that even being possible for someone to just show up with a car. There's too much evolution of the tricks and bells and whistles and all the things it takes to be fast in stock-car racing that you wouldn't know.

  Danica Patrick

  Nice, Stock Car Racing, Bells

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

  J. J. Abrams

  Mean, Kids, Feelings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

  Christina Aguilera

  People, Trying, Advantage

  "Aguilera's image is 'Stripped'". Interview with Elysa Gardner, usatoday30.usatoday.com. October 24, 2002.

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  In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

  Robert Anderson

  Love, Inspirational, Anniversary

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• I am a street performer as much as I am a stage performer. Yes, I have a television show, but every trick, every 'Mindfreak' you see, I can do live.

  Criss Angel

  Television, Stage, Shows

  Criss Angel (2009). “Mindfreak: Secret Revelations”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

  Jean Anouilh

  God, Devil, Terrible

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• All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Character, Fighting, Cutting

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• Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

  Asia Argento

  Children, Thinking, Directors

  "Wild child" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2005.

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