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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.”

Kids Easy Community Decision Growing Up Growing Trouble Incredibles Surfing Outlets Tricky Wrong Decision Good Family

Author:Jon Foreman

“I think the relationship between memory and time is a very deep and tricky one, to tell you the truth. I don't consider memory another sense. I do consider memory that which allows us to think that time flows.”

Thinking Memories Flow Tricky Very Deep

Author:Brian Greene

“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.”

Kind Art Artist Tricky

Book:This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“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.”

Thinking Moments Stories Used Voice Cases Dangerous Various Lacking Tricky Voice Over

Author:Claire Danes

“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.”

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Author:George Saunders

“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.”

Ifs Games Winning Economy Position Tricky Can't Win American Economy

Author:Farrah Gray

“We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us, but we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.”

People Way Feels Should Would Be Acting Situation Source Missions Screws Compelled Tricky Dissidents

Author:Julian Assange

“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.”

Found Team Design Daughter Harder Sticks Block Obsessed Colour Subtle My Daughter Print Tricky Stella

Author:Twiggy

“[On Richard M. Nixon:] The Republican nominee would be far worse than another Eisenhower - he is Tricky Dicky of the first magnitude. His entire record is one of opportunism. I cannot feel that there is the remotest sincerity in him, and that clearly he would be the tool of the highest bidder, which is always 'big business.”

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Author:Marguerite Rawalt

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

Form Goal Aim Tricky

Author:Arabella Weir

“Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...Calonicé: And they are quite right, upon my word!Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming.Calonicé: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it.”

Knows Men Looks Heart Children Matter Lasts Lying House Sex Easy Fire My Heart Husband Thirds Importance Busy Dear Servant Feeding Tricky Washing X Men Sly Brat

Book:The Eleven Comedies

Source: The Eleven Comedies

“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.”

People Thinking Mind Helping Home Sleep Love You Data Destroying Subconscious Laboratory Tricky Going To Sleep Assistants Labs

Author:Emo Philips

“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.”

People Ifs Want Needs Trying Wells Two Song Sound Realizing Hours Known Laughing Horse Tired Lists Checks Bored Well Known Feedback Request Tricky I'm Tired Stumbling Ballads Wild Horses

Author:Mick Jagger

“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.”

I Can Moments One Thing Proud Achievement Fingers Tricky Greatest Achievement Proudest Moments

Author:Jamie Bell

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

Love Is Horse Tricky Looking For Love Whipping Carousels

Author:George Cukor

“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.”

Years Stills Mystery Teaching Fields Easier Years Ago Starting Thanks Bob Propositions Tricky Copywriting

Author:Ken McCarthy

“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.”

I Can Honest Capacity Deception Melody Cliche Tricky Vernacular Subtext Overused

Author:Andrew Bird

“I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.”

Trying Tricky

Author:Nate Silver

“Gender is used as a control mechanism that's just wrong. Gender is never anything to struggle with; gender is something to play with. Once you're free of the rules that all these hierarchical, oppressive systems place on gender, that's the tricky part.”

Play Used Struggle Gender Mechanism Tricky

Author:Kate Bornstein

“There's a tricky tone where you try to get some humor into a movie that's also a tough tale of murder and revenge. You have to ice skate rather carefully between the humor and the action tension part of the drama.”

Trying Action Drama Tough Murder Revenge Tales Ice Tone Tension Tricky Skates

Author:Walter Hill

“When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.”

Difficult Pieces Balls Crafts Tennis Tricky Lizards Tennis Balls

Author:Marc Webb

“In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history of common courtesy and the one true secret of social success: how to not drive everyone around you crazy.”

Littles Art Social Common Secret Crazy Strange Wit Common Sense Courtesy Tricky Dilemma Navigate Common Courtesy

Author:William Poundstone

“Nowadays, people shoot digitally and it's all in color, but you press a button and it all goes to black and white. But it's not lit for black and white. So, it's a tricky thing. If you're going do black and white, you better remember to separate things with light, because color ain't gonna be there.”

People Ifs Light Remember Black White Color Presses Black And White Buttons Lit Tricky

Author:David Lynch

“I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.”

People Difficult Tricky

Author:Noomi Rapace

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

Writing Done Process Acting Editing Writing Process Rehearsal Tricky

Author:Julie Delpy

“Marketing is always a tricky thing with a rated R movie. Sometimes people just get what it is and they want to come see it, and sometimes you have to explain it more.”

People Want Sometimes Marketing Tricky

Author:Andy Samberg

“With the Tonys it's a little tricky because a lot of the funnier jokes are more insider, so people watching at home may not get a Julie Taymor reference the way that New Yorkers would. So you have to figure out what comedy plays to a large audience and still respect the individuals who are there.”

People Way May Littles Stills Play Home Individual Audience Comedy Figures Jokes Tricky New Yorkers Insiders

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.”

Common Instruments Common Sense Indispensable Tricky Deceptive

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring. ... It's the next best thing to being there.”

Next Guilt Caring Best Things Tricky Being There

Author:Ellyn Stern

“That's not an easy message to deliver whether it's in war and peace or in the economic arena, people don't want to be told that all their problems have been solved and everything good so it's a little bit tricky.”

People Want Littles Has Beens War Problem Easy Bits Peace Economic Little Bit Messages Arena Tricky

Author:Vin Weber

“You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.”

Trying Being True Tricky Be True To Yourself True To Yourself

Author:Kevin Costner

“In every career, you are balancing or negotiating tricky waters. But, I think that's been something nice that comedy has been able to give me a little bit more. I have the ability to laugh at myself and hopefully not take all of this whole world too seriously.”

Thinking World Giving Littles Has Beens Whole Able Bits Water Ability Careers Laughing Comedy Nice Little Bit Give Me Whole World Hopefully Tricky Negotiating Hopefully Not

Author:Anna Faris

“When somebody can be intimidated, I use this. Because I'm very wise person. I know how to intimidate my opponents. I know how to play tricky stuff for them.”

Knows Persons Play Use Stuff Know How Wise Opponents Tricky Intimidating Intimidated Very Wise Wise Person

Author:Kostya Tszyu

“It's hard to film underwater. It really is tricky. You don't have goggles, so you can't see anything. You don't know where you're swimming to. Everything's blurry.”

Knows Hard Film Swimming Tricky Underwater Blurry Goggles

Author:Zac Efron

“All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it.”

Men World Want Difficult Men And Women Instinct What You Want Betray Tricky Exact Sciences

Author:Woody Allen

“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

“The hardest thing was going through different stages of weight loss. At the beginning, it was easy to take off the weight with exercise and eating less but then you reach a point where 90 per cent of the weight loss is achieved purely through reducing your calorie intake. My goal was to lose four pounds per week. That worked well for the first few months but then things got tricky.”

Firsts Wells Different Easy Goal Loses Loss Four Week Stage Months Exercise Eating Weight Hardest Hardest Thing Weight Loss Reducing Tricky Calories Eating Less

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.”

Way Ideas Process Creation Strategy My Way Consistent Poetry Is Thread Puzzles Tricky

Author:Sarah Kay

“For me to put a look together, if it's going to be a boy look or a girl look or whatever, is quite a tricky thing to do. I'm not doing drag because drag is seen in a certain way and my comedy has got zero to do with what I'm wearing. I could wear an elephant suit and say the same thing.”

Ifs Way Looks Together Certain Girl Boys Comedy Suits Things To Do Zero Drag Elephants Tricky

Author:Eddie Izzard

“I think testing films are a great tool. And I think showing them to people that you value their opinion is important, but once you give over to what reviewers think, that's tricky. You don't know what their agenda is; it's so subjective. You have got to make sure you are asking someone's opinion who you know.”

People Thinking Knows Giving Important Film Values Opinion Tools Asking Agendas Testing Subjective Tricky Reviewers Who You Know

Author:Bradley Cooper

“We're living in a very tricky world, and unless we become analytical and expose the tricknology, people will become sucked into that. It is very easy, it is very, very easy.”

People World Easy Tricky

Author:Assata Shakur

“When I'm following someone, I'm listening to a bear bell strapped to their packs. When I'm leading on a climb, like on a rock, I like to feel my way through it on my own, so I know the tricky moves and where to place gear.”

Knows Way Feels Moving My Own Rocks Listening Bears Following My Way Climbs Bells Packs Tricky Gears Leading On

Author:Erik Weihenmayer

“So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.”

Art Brain Surgery Restoration Tricky Sponges Brain Surgery Scalpels

Author:Alexander Eliot

“Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages you have to be prepared to let anything happen and to get it wrong or go off track. The development of a character is not smooth or simple - it is as tricky as meeting someone new whom you would like to know better.”

Knows Book Character Happens Simple Stage Development Discipline Meetings Prepared Track Things Happen Smooth Editing Be Prepared Tricky Meeting Someone

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.”

Book Telling The Truth Tricky Slippery Unreliable

Author:Lillian Hellman

“The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and from my point of view, one doesn't give or receive - that's a role we have to play. But the gift - it's God's gift. I think that it's better to be souls than roles.”

Thinking Giving Heart Soul Play Views Roles Point Of View Receiving Tricky Giving And Receiving

Author:Ram Dass

“Anger is a handy term and words are tricky, as we know. What one man perceives as anger, another person - in my case the deliverer of material - is, "Don't you see it, don't you see how badly you're doing?" It's like shaking a child - which you're not supposed to do.”

Knows Men Children Persons Term Cases Materials Perceive One Man Shaking Tricky Handy

Author:George Carlin

“It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it. It's tricky and definitely a requires striking a delicate balance.”

Feels Art Balance Comfortable Intention Albums Realms Delicate Standing Out Tricky

Author:John Dyer Baizley

“You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty?”

People Ifs Should Important Like You Grateful Miserable Nasty Be Grateful Tricky Public Life Programmes I Like You

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.”

Men Weakness Weak Tricky Envious

Author:Voltaire

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