The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
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.
Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.
Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.
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".
This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.
I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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.
You know, John Coltrane has been sort of a god to me. Seems like, in a way, he didn't get the inspiration out of other musicians. He had it. When you hear a cat do a thing like that, you got to go along with him. I think I heard Coltrane before I really got close to Miles [Davis]. Miles had a tricky way of playing his horn that I didn't understand as much as I did Coltrane. I really didn't understand what Coltrane was doing, but it was so exciting the thing that he was doing.
I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.
Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and your dead
When I'm following someone, I'm listening to a bear bell strapped to their packs. When I'm leading on a climb, like on a rock, I like to feel my way through it on my own, so I know the tricky moves and where to place gear.
The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.
It's nice to be able to directly speak to fans and thank them for their support. The only time that it can get tricky is when they are unkind or say things that may not be so easy to say if they weren't behind a computer. Bullying is never ok. I personally have only experienced it very infrequently so overall I enjoy Twitter and Instagram but I'm definitely aware of it.
common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.
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 would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30s film or a movie of David's Lynch or some other director I love that could also make money, because that would say to the corporation, "Yes, you can make money and still do art. " But it's tricky.
All in all, we might think we like choice, but the question of which choices count and which do not is very, very tricky.
This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.