Tricky Quotes - Page 2

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

A novel is a tricky thing to map.

They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray.

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.

I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.

It'd be tricky to read into my lyrics - some are autobiographical, but sometimes I just like the sound of words.

As a reader I don't distinguish between confessional and non-confessional work. After all, how do we even know that certain "I" poems are confessional? It's a tricky business, this correlating of the speaker and the poet.

Working in TV and navigating success is a tricky thing. It's easier to navigate the hard work of starting out because you just do anything they let you do, but once you get into an orbit, after the thrusters have pushed you into the orbit, now you have to navigate that orbit. There's no choices when you're starting out. You're just like, "Please, let me do anything." But then it turns around and it's like, "We'll let you do anything".

You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

It's a tricky one when you're playing somebody who is mad. There's often the big actor's question, if you're playing a part like that: do you take it to be an internalized thing, pull the audience in, or do you go full-out, and kind of present it as quite a shocking thing?

If you have a ton of counterpoints, complex harmony, all these tricky things going on, it makes things less accessible to people.

I don't like menswear that's too tricky, and I wanted to take a lot of inspiration from myself and really only do things that I like. I don't like chinos, but I do like dress pants and jeans, so we do them. It's pretty straightforward, and just a matter of doing the right products.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

I find it tricky to make plans.

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.

Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.

Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.

Prayer's a very tricky business.

Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.

Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because it's over-used or inappropriately used.

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

The work that we do is so tricky because it rests on our shoulders, but it's also collaborative and part of it is trusting the people that you're working with.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?