Tricks Quotes - Page 37

• Maybe the memory does play tricks. Increasingly, I'm thinking, 'What was their name? I knew that name yesterday.' I think that's what happens. At some point, I'll forget that I ever worked with Peter Cook, I suppose, and Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller.

  Dudley Moore

  Memories, Thinking, Yesterday

  Interview with Giles Smith, www.independent.co.uk. October 14, 1995.

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• It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

  B. J. Novak

  Party, Years, Brave

  B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.223, Vintage

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• My fave routine is The Roller Coaster. First of all it's a great way to get into a card trick, without stating it's a card trick. The routine is so brilliantly structured as to at first, intrigue, psychologically unsettle and then blow away your audience. An extra bonus is that it will hopefully create a welcome respite from bloody invisible deck routines. Worth the price of the book.

  Steve Valentine

  Book, Blow, Cards

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• Vert skating was the kind of skating that was done in pools, where you could get airborne and be weightless. The other style, which is what I did, was called free style, which was tricks you could do on flat ground.

  Rodney Mullen

  Style, Skating, Done

  "Rodney Mullen Skates Central Park". Interview with Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2012.

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• For me, juggling mommyhood and work is a challenge, but each day I learn little tricks to make it all come together.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Challenges, Together, Each Day

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• I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you.

  Joe Louis

  Giving, Technique, Fighter

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• The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.

  Ron Paul

  Rome, Exhausted, Foreign Policy

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• Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, "Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the best thing that's in you." So many people who are really in deep analysis look as though and act as though they have been filleted. There's no bone there, there's no stuff! How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, People, Ego

  "The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work".

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• I definitely think the European weather has more of a factor than the European clay. I think the European weather changes from week to week, I mean, last year it was sunny and hot and this week it's kind of playing tricks on us a little bit. I definitely think that is a factor.

  Andy Roddick

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• A trick I've learned is to eat just a little bit of something that has no carbs and no sugar in it before you go to sleep because it keeps your metabolism going.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Sleep, Littles, Sugar

  "Afternoon Snack: Kelly Osbourne Looks Amazing! Her (Sort of Fascinating!) Weight Loss Advice" by Sarah Jio, www.glamour.com. February 18, 2010.

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• The trick of successful investors is to sell when they want to, not when they have to.

  Seth Klarman

  Successful, Want, Investors

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• A great mix of tips, tricks, and anecdotes, All is Forgiven, Move On has excellent ideas for your weight loss journey and for improving your life along the way!

  Judith S. Beck

  Moving, Loss, Journey

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• The trick in life is to hang out until the miracles come.

  Attica Locke

  Miracle, Life Is, Hanging Out

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• A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to write from the gut. I'm not saying you have to live your life like a fantasy adventure. The trick is the ability to synthesize your own everyday experiences into your fiction. Infuse your characters with believable emotions and motivations. Infuse your world with rich sensory detail. For that you have to be in touch with your own existence and your own soul, the dark and the light of it.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Motivation, Writing, Adventure

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• Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real.

  Tom Petty

  Real, Men, Magic

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• The trick in writing children's books is to set up danger, mystery and excitement on page one. Force the kid to turn the page . . . Then in the middle of each chapter there's a dramatic point of excitement, and at chapter's end, a cliffhanger.

  Jerry West

  Children, Book, Writing

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• I dont know how long Ill be trick or treating. Maybe Ill be 80 years old and still trick or treating.

  Kieran Culkin

  Years, Long, Ill

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• All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.

  Richard Adams

  People, Enemy, Warning

  "Watership Down". www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then everything depends on whether the man turns to the lower or the higher helps. If he resorts to mere expedients and tricks the opportunity is lost. He comes out harder, poorer, smaller for his pain. But, if he turns to God, the hour of suffering is the turning hour of his life.

  Phillips Brooks

  Life, Pain, Opportunity

  Phillips Brooks (1881). “The Candle of the Lord: And Other Sermons”

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• I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.

  Art Garfunkel

  Feelings, Balance, Should

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• I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks. Something though was hard. It was hard being between photographs and not knowing when or how another image would reveal itself.

  William Albert Allard

  Believe, Knowing, Special

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• I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

  John Shirley

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal - you have to pace yourself. You cant take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. Im not a one trick pony. Im at least a five-trick pony.

  Amy Winehouse

  Mean, People, Rude

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• The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Cutting, Men, Intellectual

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.196, Routledge

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• I'll be the first to admit that we're the 90's version of Cheap Trick or the Knack...

  Kurt Cobain

  Knack, Firsts, Versions

  Incesticide liner notes, 1992.

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