Trying Quotes
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Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For me, I don't want people going to the theater thinking it's going to be a laugh-a-minute comedy, like a Will Ferrell film or something. Because it's not.
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The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family... It's hard to separate that from my own Jewish roots.
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However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.
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I play with my tractors and live somewhat of a family life and just try to enjoy trying to retire sooner or later.
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Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
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It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.
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The bottom line, ... is why should you be trying to get anybody on your side if you're doing the right thing in the first place?
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A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.
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Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.
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I think the Democratic Party is about family, about unity, about bringing people together. We're all in this together. We're all trying to rebuild the economy together.
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We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.
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This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.
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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
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When I try to describe how I feel when you hold me, I get butterflies, I hear lullabies, it's hard to explain -- like the scent of a rose or the sound of the rain. It's too precious and too wonderful to give it a name.
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If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you can make magic happen. It's a huge combination of trying to find something you think you can deliver on and a director you think you can collaborate with to make a good picture.
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There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?
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Liberia can move on and break from the past. That is very important for us to try to achieve our development goals and reconcile our nation.
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Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.
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Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?
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I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.
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Growing up, I was always trying to catch a great show. And that's where I learned an artist gets respect. That's what makes people talk.
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Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
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The idea of my kids being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about. I'm trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it's difficult to raise children the way I was raised. But I took away the west and north wing of the house for those guys. So, they're not allowed in there.
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I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.
