Tricky Quotes - Page 12

• The main line of the Yugoslav Attack has become just too vast for most players to study in depth, and anyone intending to venture into such tricky waters needs to have an intimate knowledge of all the hidden reefs.

  John Nunn

  Player, Water, Depth

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• American economy is tricky. If you stay in the game you're in a good position for the upswing. If you're not in the game you can't win.

  Farrah Gray

  Winning, Games, Economy

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• Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.

  Jack Newfield

  Sober, Judgment, Controversial

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• Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

  Andrew Bird

  Deception, Honest, Cliche

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• 20 years ago, when Bob Bly starting teaching copywriting, the field was deeply shrouded in mystery. Now, thanks to Bob, learning copywriting, though still a tricky proposition, is much easier.

  Ken McCarthy

  Teaching, Years, Fields

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• Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.

  George Cukor

  Horse, Love Is, Looking For Love

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• Gay marriage is a tricky issue for the Democrats due
  to the fact that - like taxes, defense and education - they are forced to lie about their position when running for office. In other words, Democrats are gay marriage supporters trapped in the bodies of candidates who oppose gay marriage. And no issue-reassignment surgery can help them.

  Ann Coulter

  Running, Lying, Gay

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• You are thinking about where your brain is at any time. It's very tricky but it's why women are very well suited to rule the world in the future, because of the multi-tasking they do and their ability to be moving in 15 directions at once. It's the women who behave like men, who focus in that singular way with the blinkers on, who have problems. You get a lot more done that way maybe, but you also lose the perception of who's behind you, what's going on, the 360 degrees of it, the whole picture of life that we do have as women.

  Meryl Streep

  Moving, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think the only thing for me, the tricky thing with the footnotes, is that they are an irritant, and they require a little extra work, and so they either have to be really germane or they have to be kind of fun to read.

  David Foster Wallace

  Fun, Thinking, Littles

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Surfing and music were incredible outlets for me when I was a kid. And there are some really tricky times when you're growing up and it's easy to make a wrong decision, even with a good family and community around you. Surfing and music kept me out of trouble.

  Jon Foreman

  Growing Up, Kids, Community

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• The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

  Ann Patchett

  Art, Artist, Kind

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.1, A&C Black

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• I think the voice over actually enhances the various moments instead of compensating for something that's lacking. Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because its over used or inappropriately used. I think in this case it informs the story.

  Claire Danes

  Thinking, Voice, Stories

  "Steve Martin and Claire Danes Talk Shopgirl". movieweb.com. October 21, 2005.

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• The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking one's readers seriously -don't condescend or try to be tricky. Be a friend to your reader - I'd say that's a pretty good first step.

  George Saunders

  Character, Thinking, Trying

  Source: und.edu

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• Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. Its safer to stick to subtle prints or block colours. I have always found prints quite tricky. My daughter Carly, who is on the design team at Stella McCartney, is obsessed with them.

  Twiggy

  Daughter, Block, Team

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• Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

  Arabella Weir

  Goal, Form, Aim

  "Once Upon A Life" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

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• The subconscious is like having a laboratory assistant who pretends to love you and help you, but after you go home to go to sleep it goes back into the lab and starts fumbling with the data and destroying it. It's a very tricky thing. People think our minds are us, but that's not true at all. The mind is not us.

  Emo Philips

  Love You, Home, Sleep

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm interested in feedback and learning what people want. It's a tricky thing for me when I do a set list. You get bored doing the same songs. Let's say we do one ballad in two hours, and it's "Wild Horses." If you say, I'm tired of that, let's try something less well known, and then you're out there stumbling through this song you just relearned at sound check, and you realize people probably want "Wild Horses" instead of this. You do need to do some songs that aren't so well known. The question is how many? I'm open to people posting their requests.

  Mick Jagger

  Song, Horse, Tired

  "Mick Jagger talks Stones tour, ticket prices and scalpers". Chicago Tribune Interview, www.chicagotribune.com. April 3, 2013.

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• I'm proud of my works. But there's not one thing that I can put my finger on and say, "That is my greatest achievement. That's my proudest moment." That's so tricky to me.

  Jamie Bell

  Achievement, Proud, Moments

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• Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky.

  Julie Delpy

  Writing, Editing, Acting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.

  Emma Donoghue

  Men, Fiction, May

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• Why?” He tilted his head. “That’s a tricky one. Could it be your serenity, your quiet manner, your flawless fashion sense?” It did his heart good to see her quick, amused grin. “No, I must be thinking of someone else. It must be your courage, your absolute dedication to balancing scales, that restless mind, and that sweet corner of your heart that pushes you to care so much about so many.” “That’s not me.” “Oh, but it is you, darling Eve.

  Nora Roberts

  Fashion, Sweet, Heart

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• Having done Spaced, I can't even remember it being that difficult on Spaced, but we know what the end's going to be like. We know why we're putting in this amount of work, or why a shot might be particularly tricky, because we know that what we do is create a whole package. It's the writing, the performances, and the style of camerawork, that's what we're working toward, and we're prepared for that.

  Simon Pegg

  Writing, Style, Done

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp and wound the handle till the pressure built. I drank coffee in titrated doses. It was a tricky business, requiring the finely tuned judgment of a skilled anesthesiologist. There was a tiny range within which coffee was effective, short of which it was useless, and beyond which, fatal.

  Annie Dillard

  Coffee, Useless, Tiny

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• This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the years would have been fatal, had his luck not been strongly good. He had cheated death dozens of times, but that did not mean he could take it as a given. A man needed only one fatal mistake to end the game.

  Steve Perry

  Cheating, Mistake, Mean

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• When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. Always try to remember that most of the things that happen in this world aren't signs. They happen because they happen, and their only real significance lies in normal cause and effect. You'll drive yourself crazy if you start trying to pry the meaning out of every gust of wind or rain squall. I'm not denying that there might actually be a few signs that you won't want to miss. Knowing the difference is the tricky part.

  David Eddings

  Lying, Crazy, Real

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