Trying Quotes
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Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not. I wanted to explore that and shine a light on it. Chip is trying to be a better person and lead a better life. His methods are just super flawed.
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I think there's some stuff that's at least photographically interesting. There are things I back off from trying to talk about.
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What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.
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If you think about the people trying to hurt you, rather than just trying to hurt them back, you can understand it has nothing to do with you.
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I'm not trying to say I'm this artist who is all artsy and that I only write music for myself, because I don't. I write music for other people to enjoy, so I think about if it'd be an idea someone else would like.
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I've never fallen into what I consider to be a trap of trying to figure out something analytically that could be a very popular film. I would hope my enthusiasm could match up with something with that potential.
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I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to.
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Trying is only emphasizing the thing we know.
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I've always had a foot in everything. As a kid, I was active in sports and theater. Now, I'm learning I have to focus a bit. I'm trying to get to next projects, like writing a screenplay. Once that comes together, I could put my mind to another book - maybe a fun kids' book.
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If you submit to the ocean, you drown. If you try to control the ocean, then you're deluded. You learn how to live with the ocean. You learn how to float, to swim, to be a part of it, to be with it. That is the nature of the Pagan's relationship with nature.
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I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.
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Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
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Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.
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I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.
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I wouldn't describe myself as a home run hitter. I'm just trying to hit the ball hard in the gaps. Just backspinning baseballs and hitting line drives.
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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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The real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one... Nobody is in control. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. Now, there may be entities seeking control - the World Bank, the Communist Party, the rich, the somebody-or-others - but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself... It's like trying to control a dream.
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If you don't have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you won't reach them or will quit trying.
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I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way.
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When I was a young girl, I wasn't always trying to have curly hair.
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Missionaries are very human folks, just doing what they are asked. Simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt Somebody.
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To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play to serve the writer and to understand yourself in that context is how you continue to grow and learn.
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All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
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I'm always thinking about future projects and at the same time trying to finish the project you're in the middle off.
