I’ve had lots of supernatural experiences, but I always just blame them on my brain playing tricks. About five years ago, I woke up to a little girl lying next to me in my bed and when I reacted to her, she mirrored what I did.
Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.
My mom has a couple great tricks, but my father is consistently a good cook. He’s extremely avid about health and fitness and a bit obsessive. He always talks about garden-fresh food.
I don’t want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I’m 70.
How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man’s life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.
Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.
Mentalist is the technical term for what I do and it covers everything from psychic medium through Uri Geller, through to magicians doing tricks with a mental theme.
The way the show was conceived originally and developed, has always had good writing at the heart of it, it’s very difficult to be good with bad writing. ‘New Tricks’ has that with the right level of humor running through the series, along with the investigations.
I went into the world confident my tea training would open many doors. And I did particularly well with the Irish and fellow Nova Scotians over 60. But this only got me so far. It took a long time to cultivate the tricks of easy social interaction.
After we’d filmed one series of ‘Kiss Me Kate,’ everyone was saying: ‘The guy’s got great comic timing,’ – that was the first I’d heard of it. I’m not a comedian, I don’t want to depend on a singular box of tricks. I like story and characters, to take on world views that are not my own.
Divorces are getting so common that a woman I know doesn’t bother getting a new marriage license. They just punch her old one and give her a transfer. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks – so she keeps changing dogs.
‘Ulysses’ is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.
I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to ‘Vogue,’ and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don’t have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.
I used to spell everything phonetically, or I would have little tricks for words I could not figure out.
Mathematicians are always playing tricks on each other. They’re always pulling jokes on each other.
I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another – they get fascinated by magic tricks.
When I was 9 or 10, I had a ten-cent business: I would walk your dog for a dime, go to the store for a dime, empty your garbage for a dime – and then I could use the money to buy tricks at the magic store.
Acting is a learning process. And what you are doing in your early films is essentially picking up the nuances, the tricks of your trade. And somewhere along the line, you become analytical and learn to enjoy what you are doing.
I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There’s no tricks. It’s honesty with big melodies.
Me going to a big club when I was, like, 19 or 20, I didn’t know what to expect, how to behave, whatever. I was just a youngster who wanted to do tricks. I didn’t even care about end product, really.
We wanted to prove to everybody that we weren’t the same old Tessa and Scott, trying to do the same tricks again. We wanted to be different.
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
One of the ways by which astrology tricks human brains is via the Barnum effect, which is the process by which individuals take general and vague statements that could apply to anyone and anywhere, and find personal meaning in them.
When I came to Mumbai from Dubai to become an actor, I used to entertain people at parties by showing some card tricks.
I’ve never used a foam pit or an air bag before. I learned my tricks over time, and double corks have been a slow transition in my pipe riding.
Tame Impala’s music revisits a time when guitar effects and studio tricks were music’s newest frontiers; when rock was barely old enough to drive and violently threw conventional ideas out the window.
While I do occasionally order items on the Internet, it’s hard to teach an old shopper new tricks. I’m convinced that the catalogue will eventually disappear, but not until the last baby boomers have kicked off their smelly Nikes and been buried in mulch.
When I was younger I just played football for the fun of it, scoring the maddest goals and trying to come up with new tricks but when you’ve got to take yourself into a proper match, you’ve got be serious.
I love Fincher, as he has a great atmosphere and intensity. Also, I grew up watching Hitchcock movies, and there was something elegant in the way he plays with you and plays with the character and tricks you.
I got into circuses and put on circuses in the backyard. My dad had horses and he’d bring them and we’d do horse tricks. I was 6 or 7 years old putting on circuses for the family or whoever in the backyard.
When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music. I just started messing around. Then, after a couple of years, I got better. I actually learned some tricks, so I knew what I was doing instead of just messing.
Did I develop any ruses of my own in order to buy what I wanted at a reasonable price? In time, of course, anyone who has ever done real business in an oriental bazaar will learn the tricks and feints of buying and bargaining there.
Good clothes are good clothes, and they don’t need whales and tricks and too many jokes. Sometimes you just need something to wear.
The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called ‘life’, expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
I’m not a real producer, so if someone asks me to produce, it’s only because they like my sound. I’m not a professional, all I have is my own way of doing things, my little tricks.
You gotta go out and do the stuff that’s going to be pushing the sport and stuff that’s going to be next level and scary. It’s all about going out and doing those tricks and pretty much surviving.
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!
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
I have some tricks in my mind and would like to first try them out in the practice sessions.
A lot of hip-hop sounds the same… same thing with skateboarding. But if you see someone coming out here doing some tricks no one’s done before that’s really cool.
Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb words that somebody put in an interesting order.
I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers – I’d tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.
I’m a magician. I’ve learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.
Seasoned queens can also learn new tricks, right?
The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we’ve come from the cuddly old ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google’s evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.
Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other – the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.
Our music did not sound like the Beatles in any way, shape or form. I could never find it in myself to use those Beatles tricks in Styx records because they were sacred to me. But what they did always influenced my thinking.
I always thought Tinker bell was really cool. I’d like to be able to shrink down to a really small size and fly around to places, play tricks on people… you know, fairy-like stuff.
I’ve learned pretty much everything from mom. She’s taught me a lot about just taking care of yourself – skin care, great makeup tricks. She’s very good at putting together that very effortless-style look.
Of course, in all magic tricks there’s a secret.
Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent ourselves. But there comes an age when one begins to observe life, and there are things that need time to mature, also in terms of literary form.
I’m always trying to add new tricks, work on my fundamentals, and get better and improve.
