Tricks Quotes - Page 36

• All the help that comes to us is form the Holy Spirit, whether it comes in a dream or through the help of a friend or doctor. The trick is the discrimination you need: to tell what's good for you and what's not good for you. This comes by listening to your heart.

  Harold Klemp

  Dream, Spiritual, Heart

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• Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent… this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Book, Character, Reality

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• Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Party, Character, Gun

  Interview with Ruth Hilton, www.maxim.com. June 29, 2011.

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• I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.

  Brad Paisley

  Home, Thinking, Dinner

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

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• I can't say I ever wanted to become an entertainer. I already was one, sort of-around the house, at school, doing my magic tricks, throwing my voice and doing Popeye impersonations. People thought I was funny; so I kind of took entertaining for granted It was inevitable that I'd start giving little performances.

  Johnny Carson

  School, Voice, People

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• Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Art, One Liner, Lord

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• There's a scene [in the 1990 film Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael] in my bedroom where I start eating Almond Roca. I was so young. It was before I knew the tricks of moviemaking, and I didn't know you shoot a lot of different angles. I gobbled them and didn't realize I had to keep doing it. So I had to eat 64 Almond Roca that day. I got so sick. In the beginning you're like, 'Ooh, that looks good.' But hours later, no.

  Winona Ryder

  Home, Sick, Looks

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• If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Wish, Killing Yourself

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• Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Race, Funny Simpsons, Easy

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

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• In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, 'What do I want to do?' Your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the gray area; being okay with where you are. If you can find the parity between 'Where am I going?' and 'What's my purpose?' you've got two pretty solid pillars for your coffee table.

  Chris Pine

  Coffee, Thinking, Two

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• Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Fun, Comedy, Slapstick

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• A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.

  James Franco

  Spiritual, Thinking, San Francisco

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• I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds. One of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Black And White, Men

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• Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Giving, World, Crafts

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• Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Morning, Fun, Moving

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• Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!

  Peter O'Toole

  Kings, Men, Feet

  "Fictional character: Eli Cross". "The Stunt Man", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• You can try to trick the people and come out wearing a fedora and a tuxedo but that's not me. I was born in the late '70s, I wear jeans. I don't hang out in casinos. The lifestyle isn't my thing. I don't drink martinis and I don't smoke cigars.

  Michael Buble

  Jeans, People, Trying

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

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• I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.

  Albert Finney

  Mean, Mirrors, Clothes

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• Youll come to see that a man learns nothing from winning. The act of losing, however, can elicit great wisdom. Not least of which is how much more enjoyable it is to win. Its inevitable to lose now and again. The trick is not to make a habit of it.

  Albert Finney

  Winning, Men, Losing

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• There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.

  Jay Leno

  Real, Pie, Giving

  "Oprah Talks to Jay Leno". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. February, 2003.

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• A solid giggle should do the trick.

  Lulu

  Should, Giggle

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• Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

  Sam Shepard

  Hate, Play, Acting

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• Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.

  Michael Caine

  Magic, Ordinary, Three

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• I've learned my tricks. I know what I like. I do not wait around. I initiate. And I'm not all about frequency - I favor intensity.

  Halle Berry

  Waiting, Favors, I've Learned

  "Report: Halle Berry Says She Takes Control in Bed". www.foxnews.com. October 20, 2008.

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• It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.

  Jerry Stiller

  Looks, Youth

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

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