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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.
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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.
Harry Anderson
Settle
Back
Tricks
Magic
Am
Than
Want
Richer
Card
I learned from Jimi Hendrix. They all wanted him to do the tricks, and at the end of his career, he just wanted to play. I lived longer than he did, and I can see how those pressures can really play with your head.
Prince
Jimi Hendrix
Those
Pressures
Tricks
See
He
Head
Longer
Him
Learned
How
His
End
Than
Did
Just
Wanted
Really
Your
Lived
Hendrix
Play
Career
Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'
Daniel Dennett
Good
Design
Biology
Broad
Range
Apt
Evolution
Independently
Tricks
Emerge
Similar
Highly
Environments
Call
Known
Wherever
Again
Successful
Designs
Phenomenon
I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.
Felix Dennis
Day
You
Every Day
Mind
Fools
Understanding
Past
Own
Every
Think
Our
Way
Tricks
Minute
About
Something
Absolute
Never
Talking
Least
Just
Suspicious
Happen
Happened
Your
Plays
You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.
Joseph Chamberlain
You
Old
Tricks
New
Dogs
Cannot
Teach
It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.
Madchen Amick
Tricks
Scenes
Town
Know
Because
Odd
Up
Going
Behind
Gaming
Grow
Grow Up
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.
Marco Tempest
Death
Overcome
Creation
Must
Tricks
Follow
Magic
Archetypes
Resurrection
Obstacles
Tales
Narrative
Loss
Fiction
One of the favorite tricks of the Democrats is to try to get the Republicans to pass over their strongest candidate and nominate instead a candidate who will be easy to beat.
Phyllis Schlafly
Try
Will
Favorite
Tricks
Easy
Strongest
Beat
Instead
Over
Democrats
Pass
Get
Candidate
Republicans
Who
Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
Vernon Law
Learning
People
Some People
Busy
Tricks
Some
Never
Learn
Trade
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David Thoreau
Best
You
Will
Nothing
Luck
Tricks
Composition
Write
Goes
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