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“I believe, or sense, that the universe has not been constructed from a purely mechanical, logical, rational point of view, but there is a magic afoot in the universe, that God can be looked at as a kind of a magician in which we get to perform tricks ourselves, without knowing that we're doing so.”

Believe Kind Universe I Believe Views Knowing Magic Point Of View Tricks Rational Logical Magician

Author:Fred Alan Wolf

“Nobody loves me. No, everybody wanted me to do this one by myself, and I wanted to do it by myself. So, this is sorta like my first solo album. I didn't pull any tricks out of my hat, and just went with the natural flow of the film.”

Firsts Wanted Film Natural Flow Albums Tricks Hats Solo Nobody Loves Me

Author:Marlon Wayans

“I set up a system for myself where I work on a lot of pieces at once. I'll switch between them and keep working on a piece until it comes together, and then I'll publish it. This way some pieces can take a year if they need to. The trick is to just make sure one is ready every week.”

Ifs Way Needs Years Together Pieces Week Ready Tricks Publish

Author:Paul Madonna

“I was a musician who began playing with computers, to see if they could make some tasks simpler. I developed some "tricks" or strategies for working with audio files, and then discovered that the same tricks could be applied to video files, or really, any type of data. Previously I made many different kinds of music. I did some work as a composer of film scores. In that role, my task was to create audio to match and deepen the visual. In my work now, the role is often reversed: I have to create images to match and deepen the audio.”

Ifs Kind Made Different Film Roles Type Computer Musician Tasks Strategy Tricks Video Data Visuals Score Composer Different Kinds Files Audio Different Kinds Of Music Film Scores

Author:Kurt Ralske

“Maybe I feel like I'm writing songs that don't need to be saved or made more interesting by endless overdubs and studio tricks...maybe - remember, where I am with songwriting I have never been before - sparkly guitars and overdubs I've done (and will do again - see instrumental record in above answer)”

Needs Feels Writing Made Done Remember Song Answers Interesting Records Guitar Studios Saved Tricks Endless Songwriting Writing Songs

Author:Robin Guthrie

“The trick is, after all, obvious. The Theist takes terms that can apply to sentient life alone, and applies them to the universe at large. He talks about means, that is, the deliberate planning to achieve certain ends, and then says that as there are means there must be ends. Having, unperceived, placed the rabbit in the hat, he is able to bring it forth to the admiration of his audience.”

Mean Ends Able Certain Universe Term Audience Achieve Obvious Planning Tricks Hats Admiration Deliberate Rabbits Theist

Author:Chapman Cohen

“The tricks and artifices of advertising are available to the seller of the better product no less than to the seller of the poorer product. But only the former enjoys the advantage derived from the better quality of his product.”

Enjoy Quality Products Advantage Available Tricks Advertising Former Sellers Artifice

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.”

People Thinking Years Character Shows Jobs Acting Saws Lucky Trade Tricks Crap Showing Off Anonymity Pubs

Author:Eddie Marsan

“I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.”

Ifs I Can Perfect Party College Singing Notes Glasses Tricks Massive Bangs Ceilings Choir Wales High Notes Chandeliers

Author:Katherine Jenkins

“The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.”

Real Life Is Turns Insight Tricks Foresight Hindsight

Author:Robin Sharma

“The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it's ridiculous.”

Trying Body Energy Too Much Worst Your Body Ridiculous Tricks Diets Calories No Energy

Author:Laura Prepon

“Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.”

Heart Sometimes Reason Dream Seems Desire Complicated Tricks

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“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.”

Thinking Like You Computer Approach Innovation Constant Tricks Chairs Reverence Favourite New Things Old And New

Author:Colin Greenwood

“It takes more than some mind games, a couple of parlor tricks, to get under my skin.”

Mind Games Couple Skins Tricks Parlor Mind Games

Author:Triple H

“In holding your antagonist, therefore, you should hold him lightly as if your arms were nothing but chains which connect you with him, so that you may stretch or contract them at will when necessary, and pull or push him in any direction you choose. If you pull your opponent or apply your tricks on him by putting from the beginning too much strength in your arms, then you are going to contest with him by means of your power and against the principles of Judo. In doing so, you can never expect to succeed in your contest.”

Ifs Should May Mean Principles Too Much Arms Succeed Tricks Chains Opponents Contracts You Choose Contests Judo Antagonist Never Expect

Author:Yokoyama Sakujiro

“If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.”

Ifs Thinking Deals Tricks Foxes

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“I'll tell you one of the great activities is skateboarding. To learn to do a skateboard trick, how many times do you gotta get something wrong til you get it right? ...And you hurt yourself, and you learn to do that trick, now you got a life lesson. Every time I see those skateboard kids, I think 'those kids'll be alright.'”

Thinking Kids Hurt Lessons Activity Tricks Life Lesson Alright Skateboarding

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose.”

Answers Offers Tricks Surviving Interrogation Nooses

Book:The Impossible Knife of Memory

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

“I have a lot of friends who have hula-hoops, it's like a mixture of dance and athletics and exercise, meditation. It's a healthy hobby I think. I can do a few tricks, I can hoop from my neck and shoulders, and I can do a few moves, a few tricks! I can walk through the hoop whilst it's spinning. I feel like there's definitely an interest in promoting the hula-hoop as an important pastime!”

Thinking Feels I Can Important Moving Interest Can Do Walks Meditation Exercise Healthy Tricks Shoulders Necks Hobbies Mixtures Promoting Spinning Athletics Pastime Lots Of Friends Hula

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“You're able to use a search engine, like Google or Bing or whatever. But those engines don't understand anything about pages that they give you; they essentially index the pages based on the words that you're searching, and then they intersect that with the words in your query, and they use some tricks to figure out which pages are more important than others. But they don't understand anything.”

Giving Important Use Able Figures Pages Tricks Engines Google Search Engine Queries

Author:Stuart J. Russell

“We've had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants. The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don't think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.”

Thinking States United United States Horror Mass Tricks Violent Shooting Traps Isis Fanaticism Mass Shootings

Author:Adam Gopnik

“I think the great trick of doing my sort of thing is to learn to use your downtime, and of course in the media and especially in television, there's a heck of a lot of time of waiting around. And I think the trick is to use that.”

Thinking Use Courses Waiting Media Television Tricks Downtime Waiting Around

Author:Clive James

“The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces you treat it as a black box knowing that it either works or doesn't work.”

Moving Black Break Knowing Pieces Program Treats Boxes Tricks Black Boxes

Author:Bill Gates

“Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.”

Form Term Pieces Written Objects Approach Tricks Programming Software Components Rewriting

Author:Bill Gates

“Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.”

Seems Three Actors Given Months Tricks Fats Cards Interviews Skinny Three Months Card Tricks

Author:Sam Riley

“Being able to play tragedy for humor rather than pity is a new trick I've learned. For a long time that's what I did with my poetry, ask people to feel sorry for me. I got sober and I realized I have to get out of the pity thing; it's not going anywhere for me. I don't want to have any self-pity.”

People Want Feels Long Self Play Able Asks Long Time Tragedy Sorry I Realized Tricks Pity I've Learned Sober Self Pity

Author:Bucky Sinister

“I have never turned a trick in my life, and I just resent the American definitions of ’sex slave’ and ’prostitute’ so much. I was a mistress!”

Sex Slave Definitions Tricks Mistress Resent

Author:Kola Boof

“I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.”

Thinking Writing Book Can Do Space Novel Tricks Manuscripts Illustration Picture Books

Author:Mac Barnett

“Unfortunately most easily-digested entertainment has as much actual content as a Spongebob Squarepants episode, so the trick is to try to fit actual nourishing content into enjoyable entertainment.”

Trying Fit Entertainment Tricks Episodes Enjoyable Spongebob Squarepants

Author:Jeffrey Lewis

“Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that.”

Limits Majors Tricks Labels

Author:Dawn Angelique

“One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived.”

Firsts Two Ends Would Be Next Language Rooms Students Pages My Favorite Tricks Versions Compare Translate Survived The Next One Foreign Language

Author:Gregory Rabassa

“You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear - and only one. This one visualization will clarify every word choice you make.”

Want Writing Persons Stories Choices Novel Imagine Ears Tricks Whispering Visualization Choices You Make Word Choice

Author:Julianna Baggott

“It's perfectly legal in this country to change your mind. But when you're a governor, you have to admit it. You can't hide behind parliamentary tricks. That's the difference, and that's the kind of leader we need in the White House. Stop the Washington bull and let's get things done.”

Needs Mind Kind Country Done House Differences White Behinds Leader Tricks White House Governors Bulls Things Done Changing Your Mind Parliamentary

Author:Chris Christie

“In a way, I'm not at all jaded, and still enjoy so much what I do. It's a good trick.”

Way Stills Enjoy Tricks Jaded

Author:Jill Sobule

“I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.”

Writing Stories Past Habit Tricks Arbitrary Constraints My Past

Author:Catherine Brady

“The fundamentals of what I'll do to prepare for a role don't really change. They evolve as you work with more actors and you pick up more tricks.”

Actors Roles Picks Fundamentals Tricks Evolve

Author:Kristen Hager

“Oh, I like going down the rabbit hole. You know, that's kind of my job. When you play Macbeth, you gotta dive down that one. The trick is figuring out how to do it with love and a sense of humor so you can pop back out again. But, kind of the actor's job is to go down the rabbit hole.”

Knows Kind Play Jobs Actors Pops Tricks Holes Sense Of Humor Rabbits Rabbit Holes

Author:Ethan Hawke

“It's a really unique job that is a little schizophrenic and you have to kind of do it with a sense of humor.The trick is figuring out what each job is asking of you and what it's not asking of you.”

Kind Littles Jobs Unique Asking Tricks Sense Of Humor Schizophrenic

Author:Ethan Hawke

“Anytime you have to get intimate on camera, it's always a little interesting. You have to trick your brain almost, so that you don't get stage fright or get too much in your head where you're super uncomfortable.”

Littles Interesting Brain Too Much Stage Cameras Tricks Uncomfortable Intimate Fright Stage Fright

Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“In the Japanese movie's they're throwing everything they have at him, every missile, but he keeps coming, he can't be stopped and that represents death. There's nothing you can do to stop it, to keep yourself from dying. You can try every trick in the book and it still won't prevent it.”

Trying Stills Book Can Do Dying Tricks Throwing Missiles

Author:Brad Warner

“I think that today, integration is the name of the game and not separating these things out, and not trying to find the razor's edge, the narrow path. There's a lot of lanes in the highway, the trick is not fall into the ditches on either side, like a one sided nihilism, nothing matters life.”

Thinking Trying Matter Today Fall Games Names Sides Path Edges Tricks Integration Highways Nihilism Lanes Razors Separating One Sided Nothing Matters Narrow Path

Author:Surya Das

“Sometimes chemistry does the trick, and other times, you have to forge that with the people.”

People Doe Sometimes Tricks Chemistry

Author:Aaron Tveit

“Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done.”

Done Care Speak Natural Achieve Effects Species Tricks Selection Natural Selection

Author:David Papineau

“As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named Marcel Ophüls, who said, "I always have a point of view, but the trick is showing how hard it is to come to that point of view."”

Said Hard Inspiration Views Point Of View Tricks Filmmaker

Author:Alex Gibney

“My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting up that's the real trick." I couldn't agree more.”

Real Bigs Used Boys Agree Tricks Prize Grandfather My Grandfather Knocked Down

Author:Kevin Allen

“The biggest thing was that second person allowed me to trick myself into revealing more about myself. It gave me an authorial distance to get closer to the action and emotions, if that makes sense.”

Ifs Persons Action Emotion Distance Tricks Make Sense Revealing

Author:Rob Roberge

“Part of what I feel is that the so-called bad fairies are really only there to get you to pay some attention. They trick you up until you're lying flat on your back and you literally have another point of view. They're about loosening up being rigid. They trip you over to break the barrier between you and the world. So their so-called "badness" actually can be quite instrumental in helping you with things.”

World Feels Helping Lying Views Pay Attention Break Point Of View Tricks Fairy Barriers Flats Badness

Author:Brian Froud

“I sometimes try a variance of the drawer trick - [I write it] and then come back to it and see if it blows.”

Ifs Writing Trying Sometimes Blow Tricks Drawers Variance

Author:Travis Morrison

“As television is learning some of the movies' great tricks, movies are taking what's good from TV. Maybe it will all become one big thing, with smart, talented people who love a thing, helping each other be better.”

People Helping Bigs Television Tvs Smart Tricks Big Things Helping Each Other

Author:Akiva Goldsman

“So there's that, and then there's always things you can do with the tips. Except for this, what they call the arrow tips, they'll all be non-lethal cause again we're not trying kill anybody, just sort of take control of the situation. They'll probably throw in a lot of gimmicks with the tips and trick arrows, and things like that. And ya the new, cool.”

Trying Causes Can Do Situation Tricks Arrows Take Control Gimmicks

Author:Jeremy Renner

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