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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
I've learned a lot of sleight of hand and coin tricks, but as far as the occult is concerned, I have not dabbled. I'm sort of an internal skeptic about those things.
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 lot of things in films are cheated with the use of camera tricks, so while it may feel unnatural to do, when you look at the result, you realise that it is right.
I've always thought one of the tricks of being an actor for a long time is keeping yourself interested once you've figured out how to pay the rent.
There's tons of little tricks that that go into making the perfect shoe, but I think color, comfort is really important and different sizes of heels.
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".
The spirits are an age-old theme, a story from darkest history, and therefore a presentational anchor that can be used with many different magic tricks.
You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.
It's not enough to win the tricks that belong to you. Try also for some that belong to the opponents.
Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.
Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.
Some people are so busy in learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.
Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.
One of my favourite tricks is using a cream pencil or liner on the waterline under the eye; then it makes your eyes look bigger and brighter.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.
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.
I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.
I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government.
You learn these little tricks for stage fighting, which are really tiny and you wouldn't think of them, but it makes all the difference in the world. I love it!
For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.
If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.
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.
The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.
The way I look at tricks is if I really have my mind set on one, I'm going to learn it until I can do it 10 or 20 times in a row. I want to perfect it.
The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.
Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals
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.
Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.
On the show, you have to be more charismatic, a little smoother, but I think I can still be that prince of darkness. You just have to learn the tricks of the TV trade as well.
Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.
If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?
I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.
I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has.
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.
My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.
My parents owned a hair salon, so I learned a few tricks there. I can cut people's hair - if they let me.
The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.
I went on YouTube and saw videos of Angelina Jolie on some talk show showing people switchblade tricks, and I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'
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 one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
You dream of scoring hat-tricks and scoring last minute winners when you are young.
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
A truly beautiful woman is always good and the other women, and to people in general. She rejects rivalry, intrigue and dirty tricks.
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.
That's probably one of the most challenging things about our sport is walking the line between doing the tricks that you know how to do that are safe and pushing yourself.
I'd call myself a street footballer, that's where I learned my tricks, and through football I looked at the big players, I think it really helped me.
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 can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.
I'm a character actress, and my particular brand is more mature, so I had to wait until my age caught up with the tricks in my little arsenal.
The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart.
Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.
I'll learn how to rest, though. I can still learn new tricks.
