#trick

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance. ↗

— Alex Winter

#culture #everything #get #give #how

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes. ↗

— James Wolcott

#cultivated #dainty #filtered #fine #fingertips

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#any #heard #i #never #personally

The trick is to be there when it's settled. ↗

— Arthur Goldberg

#trick

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required. ↗

— Ivan Goncharov

#avoid #dishonest #making #needed #offer

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#denying #exit #go #graceful #job

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind. ↗

— George Grosz

#declared #drunk #joy #peace #stricken

I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#easy #gay #i #interesting #last

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#how #like #lot #magic #magician

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together. ↗

— David Hare

#carry #head #heart #keep #people