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The second a political consultant tries to play dirty tricks, it will backfire, and it will hurt that candidate.
... shouldn't everything you do matter if you're bothering at all? Not to hold on when it's over, that's the trick.
Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.
I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.
As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.
I don't want to leave people thinking they've merely seen another actor using his same bag of tricks and fake charm.
For me, juggling mommyhood and work is a challenge, but each day I learn little tricks to make it all come together.
On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.
The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they're being followed.
Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.
My family has something of a special relationship with confidence tricks: my grandfather was a professional swindler.
Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.
I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.
When I came to Mumbai from Dubai to become an actor, I used to entertain people at parties by showing some card tricks.
I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.
The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.
I like doing my makeup myself! It's a hobby of mine. I like to play around. I've learned all the best tricks from the pros!
I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to revel in it.
Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.
If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.
I'm not a big fan of doing it because I get really frustrated because I can't do any of the tricks, but I love to watch magic.
L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.
I thought magic tricks would be a really good way to start conversations. I looked them up on YouTube and slowly mastered them.
Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.
I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
I found my own voice slowly. I don't do big tricks like Mariah Carey, so I've found this weird way of singing that works for me.
I first read about hypnotism at school, and I used to do tricks like getting a really skinny guy to arm wrestle the local bully.
Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.
I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.
It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.
I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!
Mind Playing Tricks on Me' or 'Mind of a Lunatic' were great songs. As far as my favorite Geto Boys album? None of them impress me.
Retraining for the precariat is stressful and demoralising; often, they learn new tricks only to find them obsolescent or unwanted.
Good clothes are good clothes, and they don't need whales and tricks and too many jokes. Sometimes you just need something to wear.
I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.
Magic is like special effects live, and I love to perform, so it sounded like doing magic tricks were a good way to entertain people.
Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.
When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks.
Greeks are notorious for their potions. I wouldn't say I've used Windex, but there are so many tricks that have been handed down to me.
It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.
You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic - having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed.
If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?
I know all my tricks, and I'm pretty bored with them, so if that's all someone wants, I'd rather wait for TV money and not work so hard.
Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star.
I don't remember my dreams. I'm one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams.
I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.
The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.
A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.
The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.