#rick

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing. ↗

— Simon Callow

#hours #just #practising #spent #such

The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#fun #i #jokes #laugh #most

When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps. ↗

— Laura Carmichael

#helps #i #often #situation #think

I think Ricky Williams had his time in the limelight. And I think it was good for what it was worth, and that was that. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#had #his #i #i think #limelight

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. ↗

— Angela Carter

#confidence #experience #female #human #human experience

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#any #children #duties #fulfilling #heart

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#art #away #craft #desire #end

Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president? ↗

— Dick Cheney

#deal #difference #governor #know #perry

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceased to be a man. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#slavery #experience

I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out. ↗

— Lee Child

#i #itself #just #out #pivotal