Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
Everybody talks about tariffs as the first thing. Tariffs are the last thing. Tariffs are part of the negotiation. The real trick is going to be increase American exports. Get rid of some of the tariff and non-tariff barriers to American exports.
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.
Olay does a great tinted moisturiser that I add a little turmeric to – making it more yellow depending on my skin tone and the season. That’s a great trick for all women who find that foundations are too ashy or too pink for their skins. And it’s anti-inflammatory. It’s my secret weapon.
The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.
Apart from hard work and being in the right projects, you need to re-invent yourself. I’d be bored doing the same thing over and over, and the audience wouldn’t like it, too. The trick is to break that monotony.
Sometimes I’ll even have a dream of the trick I want to do, and I’ll land it perfectly. And then I know. I’m like, ‘OK, I’m ready. I want to do this trick.’ But it takes so much courage.
The trick is after a workout you’re supposed to have gummy bears or some candy to get your veins to stick out. Of course, it’s all about protein, too, but right before you’re filming a shirtless scene, you have a little bit of sugar to pop the veins.
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you’ve immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.
I had an AM radio and listened to Al Green, Kenny Rogers, Stevie Wonder, Charley Pride and Cheap Trick – sometimes in the same hour on the same station!
The trick to acting is not to show off, it’s to think the thoughts of the character.
Drama is easy to fool people with, but you can’t trick people into laughing.
When somebody keeps telling you, ‘This book is amazing,’ you sort of have this pleasing instinct to say, ‘Oh, let me make you happy again; let me do that trick again.’
I’m a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience’s collusion.
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
I’m from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
That’s always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it’s beat for beat.
I go to eat dinner with my folks when I’m home. I think that’s the trick.
When I was very young and came into politics, I basically thought ideas would do the trick.
Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference.
The whole trick is to make it feel like you’re spying on real people’s lives as they get through the day. When I’m writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, ‘I’m writing,’ I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn’t feel as real as when it doesn’t seem to count as much.
I have the ‘thing’ worked out – the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.
The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you’re in front of a camera or when you’re on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.
We want to teach families how to cook Tuscan wherever you are. How to reuse your leftovers. How to trick the kids into eating whatever you want by putting it into a frittata.
I think a lot of people in their average day actually imagine two sides of a conversation at one point or another. I think that the mental trick of holding two sides of a conversation in your head is actually something that we all do.
After a long day at the beach, a hamburger and fries usually does the trick.
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
I’m not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work – I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive.
I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud.
To make fluffy scrambled eggs, the best trick is to whisk in a splash of water and nothing else. Cream, milk, and other liquids drag the eggs down!
The trick is growing up without growing old.
The trick, when you’re flirting, is figuring how to keep a balance between being engaging enough to retain someone’s attention and not seeming overly available. So you tease a person a little.
They weren’t interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness.
That’s the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn’t just ask you to only be selfish and not care about others. It tells you that by being selfish, you are helping others. And, in fact, by trying to directly help others, you will hurt them.
One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They’re all hanging from a thread – sometimes literally.
It’s the oldest trick in Washington – when presented with a policy solution you don’t like, characterize it as the bogeyman.
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when you’re in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. It’s a great trick.
Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
I always believe that if you feel good and look happy, you’re always going to be beautiful. My one actual beauty trick is pretty cliche: Never, ever go to bed with your makeup on.
The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.
The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
I mix my fragrances with body oils – I love body oils, so that’s my little trick.
A great trick for frying is to put a popcorn kernel in the oil, and when it pops, you’re ready to fry.
The real trick to auditioning is just letting go of trying to please them. Make it your own. That took me a long time to learn.
When I don’t feel like getting ready, just a pop of colour on the lips does the trick for me. I have this fond liking for RUBY WOO from Mac. It’s a Matte red colour and makes all the difference.
Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.
With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.
Whether in services or in manufacturing, the trick is to stay ahead of the curve. I believe we should not wait to be disrupted – we should become disruptors ourselves.
It’s an irony that with the physical decline of age comes more mental wellbeing. It’s life’s cruel trick. You’ve settled down as a person, you feel happier with who you are, and then you get a massive swollen prostate and have to go for a test every two weeks. It’s life’s way of saying the struggle isn’t over.
In a small powder room, the inclination is to go with a light wall color. My trick is to do the opposite – such as a patterned wallpaper or a deep color on the walls. It’s more interesting and makes a design statement.
A lot of guys picked up an instrument because they couldn’t get girls to pay attention to them in high school. They turned to the guitar as a sure-fire aphrodisiac. And most of the time, it did the trick.
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what’s going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you’re moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening.
You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture.
