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“In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship. The trick, however, is to remember that hope is a perilous thing, that it's not a steel and concrete bridge across the void between this moment and a brighter future. Hope is no stronger than tremulous beads of dew strung on a filament of spider web, and it alone can't long support the terrible weight of an anguished mind and a tortured heart.”

Source: Seize the Night: A Novel

“I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.”

World Fun Dog Fool Tricks Combs Old Dog

Book:Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997

Source: Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997

“Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.”

People Grows Tricks Cease Statements Ireland Wince

Book:Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences

Source: Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences

“The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or force into every meditation.”

Needs Certain Force Practice Meditation Alive Wonderful Buddhism Tricks Consistent Meditation Practice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I look at tricks, I look at Michael Vick.”

Looks Tricks Michael Vick

Author:Dan Marino

“If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.”

Ifs World Writing Trying Looks Persons Ideas Real Hard Eye Turns Given Assuming Brilliant Tricks Digging Brilliant Ideas

Author:Ann Patchett

“Of course, in all magic tricks theres a secret.”

Courses Secret Magic Tricks Magic Tricks

Author:Lene

“For an electric guitarist to solo effectively on an acoustic guitar you need to develop tricks to avoid the expectation of sustain that comes from playing electrics. Try cascades, for example. Drop arpeggios over open strings, and let the open strings sing as you pick with your fingers. It's kind of a country style of playing, but it works very well in-between heavily strummed parts and fingered lead lines.”

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Author:Pete Townshend

“Do not worry about tricks and cheaters. If some people are trying to trap and hurt you, Allah is also trapping them. Hole diggers will always fall in their holes. No bad remains unpunished, and no good remains without being awarded, so have faith in justice and let the rest be.”

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Author:Shams Tabrizi

“The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.”

Play Order Force Common Disappointment Tricks Spite Barriers Abandon Quests Persist

Book:Tales of Power

Source: Tales of Power

“Anita Johnston, Ph.D., author of Eating in the Light of the Moon, taught me to look in the mirror with curiosity rather than fear. So I may look at my reflection and think, 'That's interesting. I wonder why my body seems bigger today than it did yesterday. Maybe it's water weight. Maybe it's my outfit. Or maybe my eyes are just playing tricks on me.' I know it's not possible for me to gain a noticeable amount of weight overnight, so I will go no further than that. I move on with my day without skipping a beat-and definitely without missing a meal.”

“So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan the Barbarian and Oliver North, who would look very terrifying except that they are three feet tall and facing in random directions. They stand there silently for several seconds before an adult voice hisses from the darkness behind them: "Say 'Trick or treat!”

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Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.”

Ifs I Can Book Helping Happens Lost Laughing Doors Sea Wind Keys Please Horse Boxes Excuse Tricks Code Caves Pardon Labyrinth Excuse Me Sure Thing Ciphers Wind Blowing

Author:Carl Sandburg

“He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the same scientific approach I gave it. He just swung. If he'd ever had any knowledge of batting, his average would have been phenomenal. ... he seemed content to just punch the ball, and I can still see those line drives whistling to the far precincts. Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Stills I Can Play Lines Approach Baseball Balls Harder Average Tricks Delivery Phenomenal Batting Whistling

Author:Ty Cobb

“To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.”

Thinking Ends Television British Tricks This Day Cracks Reporters Debut British Television

Author:RuPaul

“I think a bad place for a fire would be the factory where they make those trick candles.”

Thinking Would Be Fire Tricks Candle Factories

Author:Demetri Martin

“The world will not end. This is ridiculous. I think it's like 2000. It's a great trick to do business and earn lots of money because stupid people hoard things. This is a stimulator of the economy.”

People Thinking World Ends Economy Stupid Ridiculous Tricks Lots Of Money Stupid People

Author:Ronnie Radke

“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.”

People World Humans Jobs Pay Violence Promise Slavery Threat Tricks Around The World Good Job Good Education False Promises

Author:Lisa Kristine

“Yanagihara's most impressive trick is the way she glides from scenes filled with those terrifying hyenas to moments of epiphany. 'Wasn't it a miracle to have survived the unsurvivable? Wasn't friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely? Wasn't this house, this beauty, this comfort, this life a miracle?' A Little Life devotes itself to answering those questions, and is, in its own dark way, a miracle.”

World Way Littles Persons Made Moments Seems House Dark Comfort Scene Findings Lonely Miracle Filled Tricks This Life Survived Impressive Epiphany Hyenas Lonely World

Author:Marion Winik

“I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. I'd been missing both during these last hard years, because both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish and I'd been living in a giant trash compactor of nonstop anxiety. As for how to balance the urge for pleasure against the longing for devotion...well, surely there was a way to learn that trick.”

“Well, the whole trick to doing an independent film, is to keep great pace and momentum. You're shooting maybe three times as many scenes in one day that you would on a big, luxurious budget on a luxurious schedule, and you try not to sacrifice quality for that. Things are just compressed, but essentially the same.”

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Author:Kevin Kline

“How you prepare for a role is entirely your business in my point of view. There is little enough mystery anymore left in the world in the part of our profession, which should be clouded in mystery because it isn't in the public. You don't want the magician to show his tricks or how he did them do you? So I do think that is a very private thing that we actors should protect ourselves from.”

Thinking World Want Should Littles Enough Shows Actors Left Views Roles Mystery Protect Point Of View Profession Tricks Magician Clouded Private Things

Author:Christopher Plummer

“People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as possible. That's part of my trick. I don't have that anxiety about meeting their needs.”

People Thinking Needs Children Nice Anxiety Labor Our Children Meetings Motherhood Tricks Your Children Being Nice

Author:Anne Enright

“Being a singer, being a performer, you have tricks, somehow, to calm yourself when things feel a little overwhelming. I don't do breathing exercises, per se, but I definitely have to have a sort of internal word with myself before things got completely out of hand and I fainted on the floor.”

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Author:Shirley Manson

“I would tell any actress that the trick is to play all the female characters on your show, and then all the men are yours.”

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Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar

“The trick is not to look back, but keep on expressing where I'm at now. It's challenging to create something new, so it's crucial to dwell in the present moment.”

Looks Moments Challenges Tricks Something New Present Moment Crucial

Author:Eric Drooker

“The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.”

People Real Directors Harder Tricks Pushing

Author:Ivan Reitman

“Meaningful rules in the consumer credit market can accelerate economic recovery. Rules would increase consumer confidence and, more importantly, weed out all the tricks and traps that sap families of billions of dollars annually.”

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Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Get out of debt. In a world of stagnant incomes and rising core expenses like mortgage and health care costs, that's a lot easier said than done. The middle class is under enormous pressure. But families can stop the bleeding by reducing their reliance on debt wherever they can. They can also start fighting back by taking a hard look at whom they do business with and rethinking whether they want tricks-and-traps banks to hold their money. They can also demand that public officials take the side of families over the side of banks.”

“Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who don't have the money to invest in better food, but perhaps they have the time. There's a trade-off: The more time you're willing to put into food preparation, the less money you have to spend.”

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Author:Michael Pollan

“My method seems to change to everything, especially when you get older. You have more of a resonance to be able to grab to. When you're younger, you have these big boundaries because you don't know how to get you to where you are. When you get older, you have a few tricks that you can pull off.”

Knows Bigs Seems Able Know How Method Boundaries Tricks Where You Are Resonance

Author:Jason Patric

“Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife.”

Self Names Memories Middle Tricks Contradiction Packs Subjectivity Mules

Author:Luc Sante

“The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.”

People Way Writing Enough Tricks Poetic Songwriting

Author:Lights

“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.”

People Whole Funny Teach Dog Sitting Whole Life Tricks Tricky

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I've always been lucky in casting. The trick in casting is to hire great people, and let them do what they do, don't interfere with them too much. And then when they're great, take credit for it in the end.”

People Ends Too Much Lucky Credit Tricks Interfere Casting Great People

Author:Woody Allen

“If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.”

Ifs Want Book Names Tricks

Author:Tom Robbins

“This is a dreadful thing to say, but I have wondered in my darker hours that, if everything were legal, wouldn't it be kind of a Darwinian solution to a lot of problems? Who are the bikies that you see who are cruisin' around with no helmet or with a hat turned around like that yoyo in Cheap Trick? They're dummies, and if they splatter their brains all over the sidewalk, they're not going to be collecting food stamps.”

Ifs Kind Problem Hours Brain Solutions Tricks Hats Be Kind Stamps Collecting Sidewalk Helmet Dummy Food Stamps

Book:Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

“There`s always the trick with anything what`s a remake. Like how much do you want to make that is brand new and how much to you want to keep that is original?”

Want Originals Tricks Brands Brand New Remakes

Author:Rob Zombie

“I think people's perception is that when you're famous, you want people to love you. That's a big part of why people become famous, because they don't just want love, they want it on a grand scale. But once you realize - and it's not a big trick to really figure it out - that it's just completely artificial, an external pumping of the ego that's never going to really help you, then it's an easy thing to step out of it. That's probably why Harrison Ford lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.”

People Thinking Want Helping Bigs Easy Realizing Steps Love You Figures Ego Perception Scales Tricks Holes Artificial Easy Things Wyoming Jackson Hole

Author:Woody Harrelson

“I think every writer struggles in some way with writers block. The trick is to plan out what you are going to say beforehand. I found out that if you make an outline you're much less likely to get blocked when you get into the middle of the story.”

Ifs Thinking Way Stories Found Struggle Plans Middle Tricks Block Outlines Blocked Writer's Block

Author:Rick Riordan

“The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.”

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Author:Brother Ali

“There's no truth in acting, it's all a trick, because you go on stage in front of sets, you're on film - it's all a trick. I'm making it sound very - I really am demystifying it, but what I try to do, what I do, and I hope effectively, is to create a reality as if it is happening now, that you're fishing for words out of the air.”

Ifs Trying Reality Film Sound Acting Air Stage Fronts Goes On Happenings Tricks Fishing

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance to real-life dialogue. For example, if you've ever seen a word-for-word transcript of people talking, it doesn't read off the page very well. The trick is to make it *seem* like it's being spoken, not to make it speakable.”

People Ifs Wells Book Ideas Real Seems Reading Sound Talking Example Bears Pages Honestly Real Life Tricks Dialogue Good Ideas Resemblance People Talking Reading Aloud

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I'm always game for everything. What people don't understand is that the networks are who you have to get to take a chance on you. I wanna do it all. The trick is convincing a network to do it with you.”

People Games Chance Tricks Convincing Take A Chance

Author:RuPaul

“I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural. It is, but there are a lot of times where people treat it like a sport - there are tricks you can pull, different combinations that make something better. I don't really think I approach it that way, but I definitely have a love for the science that is pop song writing.”

People Thinking Way Feels Writing Looks Different Song Sports Process Natural Numbers Perspective Approach Treats Patterns Pops Tricks Combination Outsiders Something Better Pop Music Pop Song

Author:Halsey

“I've worked ever since I was a kid with a two-bit kit of magic tricks trying to improve my skills at entertaining whatever public I had - and to make myself ready, whenever the breaks came, to entertain a wider and more demanding public.”

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Author:Johnny Carson

“I know how to dress for my body to give off illusions, and I like to teach women about it - it's important for women to have that power and that arsenal... tricks that make you feel good when you walk outside.”

Knows Giving Feels Important Body Walks Teach Know How Illusion Dresses Tricks Feel Good Arsenal Make You Feel Good

Author:Tyra Banks

“I think that God gave us a brain, and that it's the only thing we have to survive. All life forms have some advantage, some trick, some claw, some camouflage, some poison, some speed, something to help them survive. We've got a brain. Therefore it's our duty to use our brain.”

Thinking Helping Use Form Brain Duty Advantage Speed Tricks Poison Claws Camouflage

Author:George Lucas

“Some guys make their careers off one horse; kind of a trick horse, a wonder horse. I'm not knocking that, but for me I'm trying to get better and study. That means taking out new horses. It's a life study. When I've finished a horse, I turn him out and basically stop riding him, except taking him to the occasional branding so I can enjoy him.”

Trying Kind Mean I Can Guy Turns Enjoy Wonder Careers Study Horse Finished Tricks Get Better Riding Branding Occasional Knocking

Author:Buck Brannaman

“Acting is a trick word invented in the festival of Dionysus, before Christ, in Greece at a fertility festival. That's where theatre came from: a fertility festival. No women were allowed. All the men played all the parts.”

Men Christ Acting He Man Theatre Tricks Festivals Greece Fertility Dionysus

Author:Gary Busey

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