Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
Thirdly-but not lastly-there was the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen. The human mind… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“It's good enough. It has to be, doesn't it? You see, lad, Aes Sedai are tricksome. They don't lie, not right out,… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
[Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind… — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with… — Dick Dale Copy Share Image
Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there… — Benjamin De Casseres Copy Share Image
Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
It was an audition process after Breakfast Club, and I wasn't really sure I wanted to do the movie. There was a… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
Calvin: Trick or Treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Suddenly, after years of television being the poor relation and film being everything, it now feels like film is a conjuring trick.… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the… — Ty Cobb Copy Share Image
Analysis of President Bush's tax plan has revealed that several elaborate tricks and gimmicks were used to make it look like a… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
There is no madder nation than Japan. ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I need sometimes to hang back in the shadows with my pen and paper, and then other times, I need to take… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
She tilted her head to one side, considering him. "Do you love me?" "Love is a trick and a sham. A foolish… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For me, the hardest part is taking lessons, and it's hard teaching an old dog new tricks, so part of my re-teaching… — Eric Hernandez Copy Share Image
A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when… — Rich Little Copy Share Image
But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be… — Frederick Niecks Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
Red certainly is the family color. From my mother and my grandmother, I've learned a lot of little tricks - the significance… — Gracie Gold Copy Share Image
Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
New Orleans could wreck your liver and poison your blood. It could destroy you financially. It could shun you or embrace you,… — Julie Smith Copy Share Image
I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
Sometimes life likes playing tricks on people. Sometimes things can go very wrong and this can really ruin the plans. But you… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The $50 note trick - ask who wants it even after stomping on it - moral is, no matter what we do… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes a little kid will come up to me and ask me to show him some tricks. I always have to say:… — Thomas Muller Copy Share Image
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