#tricks

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

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade. ↗

— Vernon Law

#learn #learning #never #people #some

We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions. ↗

— Eric Liu

#am #bad #balancing #big #campaigns

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#country #credible #done #fantastic #folk

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks. ↗

— Humphrey Carpenter

#being #happen #learning #magic #make

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#always #because #carry #chance #craft

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will. ↗

— Richard Simmons

#equipment #gimmicks #pills #special #takes

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks. ↗

— Michelle Trachtenberg

#discipline #every #freezing #fun #hard

It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true, there would be no story to tell. ↗

— Natalie Valdes

#love #mind #nirvana #power #souls