Try Quotes
-
When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a real historical figure you have to be fair, and this is not an obligation you have in dealing with your own creations, so it is quite different.
-
We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
-
I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.
-
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
-
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
-
I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.
-
Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to.
-
I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody.
-
I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.
-
I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.
-
I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living.
-
As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
-
Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
-
A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.
-
All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.
-
If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.
-
I've been in more than 20 movies. You just do the best you can and try to make a living.
-
I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
-
XTC is my favorite band; I'm a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for Cutie, also Ryan Adams. I try to impress my children: 'Have you listened to such-and-such?' They're not impressed.
-
I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
-
I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
-
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
-
We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.
-
When the gate drops, it's time to try and execute the best you can.
