Juan Cole
Historian
"Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition."
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Tricky
52 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Maya Lin
Architect, Artist
"Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture."
Steven Morrissey
Singer-Songwriter
"Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders."
e. e. cummings
Poet, Painter
"(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)"
David Foster Wallace
Writer
"Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky."
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"Prayer's a very tricky business."
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"I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part."
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"Working with Roman Polanski is funny. It's like anything in life - someone warns you that something's going to be amazing or difficult or awful, and you say, "I can do that. I can cope with that." And then when you're in the middle of it, it may be joyful or tricky, but it's never difficult in the way you think it's going to be difficult."
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"You learn that Hollywood has its own rules, sometimes. And it's tricky, and sometimes you can't see what's coming around the corner."
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