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• I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

  Christian Bale

  Movie, Years, Acting

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• My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.

  David Blaine

  Mother, Kids, Drawing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?'

  Bono

  Honesty, Successful, Thinking

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• I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.

  Jo Brand

  Brother, Kids, Play

  "Portrait of the artist: Jo Brand, comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2010.

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• Movies are like magic tricks.

  Jeff Bridges

  Movie, Magic, Actors

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• Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.

  Jeff Bridges

  Real, Light, Clothes

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• All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Moving, Animal, Compassion

  "9 Reasons A Cat Should Be President" by Rita Mae Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2012.

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• There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Mistake, Order

  FaceBook post by Dave Brubeck from Aug 14, 2012

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• It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There's no bravado to any of it; it's just a disgusting little trick.

  Kobe Bryant

  Father, Sweat, Dry

  "Kobe Bryant explains why he chews/sucks on his jersey, which you were totally wondering about" by Dan Devine, sports.yahoo.com. February 2, 2013.

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• I've done all my tricks. I'm tired of myself.

  Sandra Bullock

  Tired, Done, I'm Tired

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• If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.

  Leo Burnett

  Art, Economy, Ifs

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• I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.

  Nicolas Cage

  Boys, Thinking, Magic

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• L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.

  Julian Casablancas

  Thinking, Vacation, Weather

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• Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

  Jackie Chan

  Children, Giving, Parent

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• Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Writing, Desire

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “Trouble Is My Business: A Novel”, p.5, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

  Lee Child

  Stories, Facts, Surprise

  Interview with Claire E. White for "The Internet Writing Journal", www.writerswrite.com. August 2001.

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• Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.

  David Cone

  Hurt, Thinking, Player

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• The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

  Steve Coogan

  Writing, Odds, Two

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• Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Magic, Promise

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• My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.

  David Copperfield

  Relief, Comic, Evolve

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• If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.

  Justin Cronin

  Moving, Writing, Use

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• Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

  Evan Davis

  Believe, Long, Fine

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• I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.

  Paula Deen

  Dream, Alive, Proof

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• Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'

  Daniel Dennett

  Successful, Design, Evolution

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• I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Mistake, Thinking, Long

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