Tricky Quotes

• And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.

  Lisa Snowdon

  Parent, Adults, Honest

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• Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.

  Jena Malone

  Advice, Young

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• This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.

  Marvin Minsky

  Smart, Simple, Technique

  "AL's Legacy: 2001's Computer As Dream and Reality". Book by David G. Stork (p. 15), February 6, 1998.

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• No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

  Jennifer Garner

  Grateful, Parent, Matter

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• Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

  Donella Meadows

  Tasks, Forests, Politician

  "No Point in Waiting Around for Leadership". The Global Citizen, November 30, 2000.

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• Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

  Juan Cole

  Country, Propositions

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• The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

  Penelope Lively

  Past, Fiction, Mediums

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• What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

  Tom Cruise

  Play, Actors, Too Much

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 4, 2003.

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• It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

  Anne Heche

  Giving, Advice, Get Real

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• I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.

  Jerry Hall

  Nice, Men, People

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• Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Architecture, Harder

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• The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

  Alex Winter

  Movie, Giving Up, Order

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Writing, Thinking, Lines

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• Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

  Lynn Abbey

  Ideas, Long, Magic

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• The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

  Leo Burnett

  New Relationship, Design, Secret

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

  Eleanor Clift

  People, Balance, Want

  Interview with Katharine Hikel, www.vermontwoman.com. August 04, 2004.

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• People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Dog, People

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• What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

  Lillian Hellman

  Book, Telling The Truth, Slippery

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• The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.

  Daniel Craig

  Thinking, Squad, Matter

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• Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspirational, Pride, Feelings

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.134, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

  Eli Wallach

  Business, People, Needs

  "R.I.P. Eli Wallach (1915-2014): Watch Oscar Acceptance Speech, Career Profile, Movie Clips & More" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. June 25, 2014.

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• It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.

  Bjork

  People, Female, Care

  "Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.

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• There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk about because I don't think conceptually while I work on a first draft -- I just write. To get scientific about it is a little like trying to catch moonbeams in a jar. But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jul 23, 2013

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• No way construction of this tricky plan was built by other than a greater hand.

  Emily Saliers

  Hands, Way, Construction

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• Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And this is a tricky thing if you write screenplays where women have parts that are equal to or greater than the male part. And I thought, 'Why am I out there looking for directors?'—because you look at a list of directors, it's all boys. It certainly was when I started as a screenwriter. So I thought, 'I'm just gonna become a director and that'll make it easier.'

  Nora Ephron

  Writing, Boys, Directors

  "Dreams on Spec". Documentary, 2007.

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