Trick Quotes - page 4

The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much. (David O. Russell)
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. View quote
Alex Winter
Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer. View quote
Bryant H. McGill
The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything. View quote
Colin Greenwood
I feel like it's always important to curl your eyelashes. I always do when I wake up and you know you look tired, when you curl eyelashes and put mascara it makes such a huge difference, so that's the trick that I always use. View quote
Doutzen Kroes
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader. View quote
Garry Disher
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running. View quote
Gary Sinise
What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character. View quote
Irrfan Khan
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory. View quote
Jonathan Lethem
I always believe that if you feel good and look happy, you're always going to be beautiful. My one actual beauty trick is pretty cliche: Never, ever go to bed with your makeup on. View quote
Joyce Giraud
I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior. (Julie Delpy)
Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence. View quote
Lisa Kristine
Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story. View quote
Marco Tempest
There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not. View quote
Marian Seldes
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write. View quote
Nigel Kneale
I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick. View quote
Robert Powell
If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick. View quote
Rich Little
Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds. View quote
Tim Vine
You know, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with the movie. That's the trick to doing a good musical is that, if you take that music number out, there's less to the movie there. You would miss it. View quote
Trey Parker
The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally. View quote
William Ivey Long
Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?" "Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers! (Groucho Marx)
Olaf: Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else. Ishmael outwitted me, and put me in this cage. But I know how to outwit him and all his islander friends. If you let me out, I can be king of Olaf-Land, and you three can be my new henchfolk. View quote
Daniel Handler
The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better. View quote
Charles de Lint
When we view nature stripped to essentials, so to speak, in this Unification Table, what we see is... a five bit register. ...It is in just this form that data is stored and manipulated within a digital computer. ...Every particle, then, can be specified by a five-bit word and stored in a five-bit register. It's eerie that even the odd restriction on how many minus signs are allowed is reminiscent of a trick used in computers, to detect errors in transmission. You see, if allowed words must have an odd number of minus signs, any single error in transmission of a word can be detected. ...our world might be an intricate program working itself out on a gigantic computing machine. View quote
Frank Wilczek
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work. View quote
Harry S. Truman
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