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“I certainly like working harder than a lot of my peers. The trick is embracing it.”

“There are temptations around you all the time. The trick is to work your way through anxiety or your tiredness or whatever, and not let yourself get so hungry that you're going and stopping for the burgers, and you don't view it as reward. You're doing better for yourself is eating better food.”

Way Views Anxiety Eating Rewards Tricks Hungry Temptation Stopping Burgers Tiredness

Author:Lisa Ann Walter

“An actress friend of mine shared a great trick. She told me to stick my tongue behind my teeth when I smile to keep from over-smiling. If you smile without doing it, sometimes your gums show a little too much. It's an actor's trick!”

Ifs Littles Sometimes Shows Actors Behinds Too Much Mines Sticks Tongue Actresses Tricks Teeth I Smile Gum

Author:Jessica Chastain

“Yet, for I know thou art religious And hast a thing within thee called conscience, With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies Which I have seen thee careful to observe, Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know An idiot holds his bauble for a god And keeps the oath which by that god he swears, To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow By that same god, what god soe'er it be, That thou adorest and hast in reverence, To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up, Or else I will discover naught to thee.”

Knows Art Religious Boys Conscience Twenties Careful Tricks Thee Idiot Urges Reverence Swear Ceremony Vow Oath My Boys

Book:The Dramatic Works, Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George Steevens and Isaac Reed

Source: The Dramatic Works, Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George Steevens and Isaac Reed

“Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.”

Poetry Turns Views Strange Labor Tricks Endless Phrases Sonnet Antiques Nothing New Bonnets Elegy Odes Uncouth Disarray

Book:The Poetical Works of Doctors Smollett, Johnson, and Goldsmith

Source: The Poetical Works of Doctors Smollett, Johnson, and Goldsmith

“If people are fans of 'Mindfreak,' they are going to be so excited with 'Believe.' They are actually going to see those illusions that people think can only happen with trick photography.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Happens Fans Photography Illusion Excited Tricks

Author:Criss Angel

“Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.”

Ideas Bigs Rich Wonderful Tricks Plot Time Travel Gems Big Ideas Wonderful Times

Author:Robert J. Sawyer

“Hindsight plays tricks on our minds.”

Mind Play Tricks Hindsight

Book:Stocks for the Long Run: A Guide to Selecting Markets for Long-term Growth

Source: Stocks for the Long Run: A Guide to Selecting Markets for Long-term Growth

“You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.”

Long Moments Film Actors Challenges Emotion Periods Tricks Long Periods Of Time Film Actors

Author:Aaron Stanford

“I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when youre in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. Its a great trick.”

Years Done Law Lawyer Tricks In-laws

Author:Stephan Pastis

“The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.”

Men Firsts Art Matter Play Film Form Capable Tricks Demonstrating

Book:Illuminations

Source: Illuminations

“Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.”

Giving Children Lasts Life Is Our Children Tricks Generosity Your Children Village Plates Neighbour Biscuits Extended Family

Author:Tom Stoppard

“The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.”

People Ifs Trying Persons Mass Madness Refuse Supreme Tricks Insanity Totalitarianism Uncommon Abnormal

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“All human existence is a trick of light.”

Humans Light Existence Tricks Human Existence

Book:The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories

Source: The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories

“What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.”

Giving Magic Stage Emotional Tricks Hook

Author:David Copperfield

“The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.”

Firsts Littles Disappear Tricks Boards Quarters Macy's

Author:David Copperfield

“With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.”

People Way Want Trying Years Play Kids Black White Red Years Ago Tricks Realising Dressings Stripes Black Music White Stripes

Author:Jack White

“One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.”

People Want Writing Play Together Rooms Excuse Tricks Hardest Tension

Author:Adam Rapp

“I thought Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.”

Stills Hard Bills Tricks Remarkable Entertaining Delivering

Author:Mark Haddon

“The trick in foraging for a tooth lost in coffee grounds is not to be misled by the clumps. The only way to be sure is to rub each clump between your thumb and index finger, which makes a mess of your hands.”

Way Hands Lost Fingers Coffee Tricks Teeth Mess Thumbs Misled Foraging

Book:Roger Rosenblatt Collection

Source: Roger Rosenblatt Collection

“I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.”

Men Way Book Shows Parent Poor Magic Six Seven Tricks Show Business Poor Man Magic Tricks

Author:Steve Martin

“For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.”

Long Wealth Financial Credit Tricks Cards Traps Mortgage Credit Card Transactions

Author:Jeff Merkley

“Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.”

Law Changed Degrees Tricks Radical Bags Never Change

Book:Fancy Pants

Source: Fancy Pants

“The average person might articulate them differently, but we all think about interpersonal relationships in one way or another. Writers just express that in different ways and capture it in different ways. To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.”

Thinking Way Persons Different Might Culture Interest Degrees Average Tricks One Way Different Ways Links Capture Average Person Zeitgeist Interpersonal Interpersonal Relationship

Author:Jennifer Egan

“People should get married because they have finally seen the folly of being single: "Oh, this is all just kind of a bad magic trick. I just keep bending over to reach for this wallet on a string. How much longer am I gonna do that?"”

People Should Kind Magic Married Tricks Folly Strings Being Single Wallets Bending Magic Tricks Bending Over

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did magic tricks, cards tricks and I played the banjo.”

Firsts Shows Order Magic Tricks Cards Show Business Banjos Magic Tricks Card Tricks

Author:Steve Martin

“When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it all in. I didn't know you were supposed to just stand up and tell jokes. Essentially, that's what my act became: those five elements - except I dropped the poetry.”

Knows Firsts Five Comedy Magic Elements Jokes Stuck Tricks Banjos Magic Tricks Five Elements

Author:Steve Martin

“There is order in the universe, even though it looks like chaos. We separate the world into categories: this is good and this is bad. But life is set up to trick us. It's a series of illusions we invest in. And ultimately those investments don't serve our understanding, because physicality is always going to let you down, because physicality doesn't last.”

World Looks Lasts Life Is Order Universe Understanding Illusion Series Investment Chaos Tricks Categories Physicality Order In The Universe

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I think that the board is a lot more intuitive than people assume. You get on it and all you have to do is put one foot on the tail and one foot on the nose and rock it up and down and that will get you into the tricks or wheelies or manuals. It's not about the balance so much as it is about the timing.”

People Thinking Feet Rocks Balance Down And Assuming Tricks Noses Boards Timing Tails Intuitive Up And Down Manuals

Author:Tony Hawk

“We've always had a lot of different influences and we've always liked catchy music from the Beatles to Cheap Trick to Elvis Costello.”

Different Influence Tricks Catchy

Author:Chuck Comeau

“There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.”

Said Stories Artist Honest Tricks Being Honest Not Sure Inappropriate Matching

Author:Neil Gaiman

“See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.”

Knows Use Prayer Ought Tricks Inaction Cover Ups

Book:Prayer: A Holy Occupation

Source: Prayer: A Holy Occupation

“My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.”

Masters Tricks Gentleman Honorable

Book:Works, Complete: From the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by George Steevens

Source: Works, Complete: From the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by George Steevens

“It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.”

Play Dream Imagine Wonderful Tricks Our Dreams

Book:Dracula

Source: Dracula

“George Orwells 1984 frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: its not a celebration of poetic language. Its decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what 1984 shows is that language can be a dirty trick.”

Book Matter Shows Political Language Subjects Tricks Narrative Dirty Poetic Crucial Celebration Masterpiece Sequence Subject Matter Surveys Greatest Book

Author:Graham Joyce

“All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.”

Writing Tricks

Author:Anne Sexton

“My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.”

People Needs Long Journey Honesty Tricks Amazing People

Author:Lucy Walker

“I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.”

Ifs Knows Wells Certain Fiction Novel Feet Crime Reader Easier Tricks Graphic Crime Fiction Parameters Disgusted Graphic Novels

Author:Denise Mina

“Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.”

People Years Has Beens Half Lifetime Tricks Seventies Magician

Book:Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies

Source: Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies

“That wall is your mind playing tricks on you. You just need to say, 'One more step, I can do this. I have more in me.' You'll be so proud of yourself once you push yourself past your threshold.”

Needs Mind I Can Past Can Do Steps Wall Proud Tricks Threshold Push Yourself Proud Of You I Can Do This Proud Of Yourself Mind Playing

Author:Kerri Walsh

“Signori has all the tricks up his book.”

Book Tricks

Author:Ray Wilkins

“I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.”

Thinking Important Sometimes Helping Voice Forget Brain Picks Tricks Acquire Urges Destination Perfume Noisy

Author:Alan Kay

“A couple of times, I could have turned a trick. But I didn't want to start. I knew how it would play. When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.”

Thinking Want Play Easy Forget Couple Cost Tricks

Author:Janet Fitch

“Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.”

Magic Tricks

Author:Michel Onfray

“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.”

Way Crime Reader Tricks Setting Settings Convincing Evoke Thrillers Good Writers Highlights

Author:Garry Disher

“One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.”

Ifs Writing Turns Literature Magic Tricks Magician Mundane

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.”

Trying Hands Night Doors Building Wind Window Rounds Seeking Tricks Wander Unseen Spooky Moaning Crevice

Book:The Chimes

Source: The Chimes

“The trick is to steal big.”

Bigs Political Tricks Stealing

Author:Michael Parenti

“Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.”

Fortune Tricks

Author:Belle Boyd

“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry and staged mind-theaters full of tragedies and triumphs, because unfortunately, the fear of death does wonders to focus the mind, inspire creativity, and heightens the senses. Trusting one's hunches only seems gamble if one has time for seem; otherwise the brain goes on autopilot and trades the elite craft of analysis for the best rapid insights that float up from its danger files and ancient bag of tricks.”

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