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• I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when youre in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. Its a great trick.

  Stephan Pastis

  Years, Law, Done

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• The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

  Walter Benjamin

  Art, Men, Play

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.257, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

  Tom Stoppard

  Children, Generosity, Giving

  "Writer and fighter" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2008.

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• The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.

  Eugene Ionesco

  People, Insanity, Trying

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• All human existence is a trick of light.

  Don DeLillo

  Light, Existence, Humans

  Don DeLillo (2011). “The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

  David Copperfield

  Emotional, Giving, Magic

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• The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.

  David Copperfield

  Boards, Littles, Firsts

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• My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.

  Harry Houdini

  Self, Training, Tasks

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• With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.

  Jack White

  Kids, Years, Play

  "Jack White: 'I knew we'd get into these places and stir things up'". Interview with Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010.

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• One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.

  Adam Rapp

  Writing, Play, People

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• The trick in foraging for a tooth lost in coffee grounds is not to be misled by the clumps. The only way to be sure is to rub each clump between your thumb and index finger, which makes a mess of your hands.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Coffee, Hands, Teeth

  Roger Rosenblatt (2014). “Roger Rosenblatt Collection”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.

  Steve Martin

  Book, Men, Parent

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• For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.

  Jeff Merkley

  Long, Cards, Credit

  "Elizabeth Warren Is the Right Person for the Job" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2010.

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• Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Law, Degrees, Bags

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2005). “Fancy Pants”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• The average person might articulate them differently, but we all think about interpersonal relationships in one way or another. Writers just express that in different ways and capture it in different ways. To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.

  Jennifer Egan

  Thinking, Average, Degrees

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2016.

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• People should get married because they have finally seen the folly of being single: "Oh, this is all just kind of a bad magic trick. I just keep bending over to reach for this wallet on a string. How much longer am I gonna do that?"

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Being Single, People, Magic

  "Jerry Seinfeld Wants to Save Your Marriage". Interview with Lucy Kaylin, www.oprah.com. April 2010.

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• I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did magic tricks, cards tricks and I played the banjo.

  Steve Martin

  Order, Magic, Cards

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it all in. I didn't know you were supposed to just stand up and tell jokes. Essentially, that's what my act became: those five elements - except I dropped the poetry.

  Steve Martin

  Magic, Elements, Firsts

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• There is order in the universe, even though it looks like chaos. We separate the world into categories: this is good and this is bad. But life is set up to trick us. It's a series of illusions we invest in. And ultimately those investments don't serve our understanding, because physicality is always going to let you down, because physicality doesn't last.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Order, Understanding, World

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• I think that the board is a lot more intuitive than people assume. You get on it and all you have to do is put one foot on the tail and one foot on the nose and rock it up and down and that will get you into the tricks or wheelies or manuals. It's not about the balance so much as it is about the timing.

  Tony Hawk

  Thinking, Feet, Rocks

  Source: espn.go.com

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• The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Real, Interesting, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• The trick is not to get too fanatical about getting the accent too accurate because then that becomes a mask. What I try to do is just painting and sketching some of the sounds without obliterating my own voice.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Voice, Trying, Sound

  "The World's Fastest Indian - Anthony Hopkins interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Just like every kid who comes into show business on some level, I used to put shows on in my basement. I even started with doing tricks and having a ventriloquist dummy.

  Don Scardino

  Kids, Levels, Used

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes it comes out in what I call tricksy behavior. That's not always easy to deal with, but it's fascinating. The key thing is to make sure that somebody's tricks don't trip up somebody else.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Keys, Sometimes, Easy

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 19, 2011.

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• When auditioning, I try to imagine that I'm the only person that they [directors] are seeing that day because it can be overwhelming, in the same sense that it could be overwhelming if you try to fulfil everyone's expectations rather than the people closest to you in the creative process, be it your director, or fellow actors and the writers. So, that's kind of it - I try to trick myself into believing that no one has ever gone there before.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Believe, People, Expectations

  "Star Trek Into Darkness - Benedict Cumberbatch interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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