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• I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things? After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones

  David Jenkins

  Clever, Bones, Conjuring

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• It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

  Adam Ant

  Play, Sample, Cents

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• Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.

  Don Marquis

  Dream, Strong, Stars

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• You play with everything you've got. I'm not a lover of cheap tricks. I've always loved playing with people, but there's no rule about it. You try everything you can.

  John Carpenter

  Play, People, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.

  David Ayer

  Actors, Want, Magician

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I have my own method [of acting]. I come from, I've interrogated people; I come from an undercover background, so it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

  Mekhi Phifer

  Dog, People, Acting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!

  Eli Roth

  Real, Successful, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's very important that a film that intends to play tricks on the audience... has to play fair with the audience. For me, any time you're going to have a reveal in the film, it's essential that it have been shown to the audience as much as possible. What that means is that some people are going to figure it out very early on. Other people not til the end. Everybody watches the film differently.

  Christopher Nolan

  Mean, Play, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The trick with sequels is, you have to give people what they liked before, yet be innovative enough so they don't feel like they're seeing the same movie.

  Harold Ramis

  People, Giving, Enough

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I'm doing some weird tick with my mouth, or not standing still or something, I'll be the first person to notice it, and then want to change that. I think it's important just to maintain trajectory, to not just use your same tricks over and over.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, Important, Use

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• The film industry needs to find a way to bring audiences to movie theaters. It's more of a technical trick than a revolution.

  Michel Ocelot

  Way, Revolution, Needs

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.

  Harrison Ford

  Cowboy, Firsts, Stuff Happens

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• Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

  Emma Donoghue

  Writing, Creative, Brain

  "The Keeper of Room". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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• The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Real, Mean, Simple

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.

  Don DeLillo

  Long, Enough, Dies

  "Don DeLillo receiving honorary National Book Award". Interview with Hillel Italie, apnews.com. September 2, 2015.

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• The woman is skin covered prozac I like to call her. Half the trick to a film like this is keeping a sort of emotional level going and keeping an attitude that induces creativity on the set. You have to be in a good mood for that. You have to be happy to make a comedy I think and Anne sort of ensured that every time by expressing most of her feelings through the exciting medium of dance.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Attitude, Creativity, Emotional

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.

  Mark Twain

  Loyalty, Men, Should Have

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• It's easy to see things you're lookin' for. The trick is to see things you're not looking for.

  Texas Bix Bender

  Easy

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• It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.

  John Galsworthy

  Dog, Eye, Thinking

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• The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

  Karl E. Weick

  Real, Achieve, Centralization

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• The trick is, to treat your days as if each one may be your last.

  Peter Meinke

  May, Lasts, Treats

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• I work barefooted on balance plates. I do explosive squats on balance surfaces that your body has to use muscles it's not used to. It's all kinds of exercises that your body isn't really used to, and it tricks your body into getting stronger every time.

  Troy Polamalu

  Exercise, Stronger, Balance

  Source: www.complex.com

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• What you're trying to do as an actor is somehow trick yourself into believing that these words have never been said, and so you've got to discover them for the first time.

  Cate Blanchett

  Believe, Trying, Actors

  Interview with Jack White, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it goes so far beyond cool. All I can think is 12 magicians, two carnies.

  Penn Jillette

  Gun, Night, Thinking

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• Explaining is a difficult art. You can explain something so that your reader understands the words; and you can explain something so that the reader feels it in the marrow of his bones. To do the latter, it sometimes isn't enough to lay the evidence before the reader in a dispassionate way. You have to become an advocate and use the tricks of the advocate's trade.

  Richard Dawkins

  Art, Use, Way

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company

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