#tricks

Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth. ↗

— Byrd Gibbens

#trickster #art

The best lies about me are the ones I told. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#lying #self-deception #tricksters #wind

Movies are like magic tricks. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#magic #movies #tricks

I've done all my tricks. I'm tired of myself. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#i #myself #tired #tricks

I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all. ↗

— Albert Finney

#come #day #did #done #film

I was surprised I won the award because I've always been a very aggressive player and I earn my share of fouls on the court. I play rough, and because I'm an older player, of course I use tricks on the younger players. ↗

— Sue Wicks

#always #award #because #been #course

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets. ↗

— Josef Albers

#apprentice #beginner #craft #european #first

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

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! ↗

— Ace Frehley

#book #great #i #i think #learned

The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#again #get #magic #make #performing