Trying Quotes
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My dog has a cough. If you've never seen a dog with a cough, I recommend trying to find one. It's hilarious.
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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 think it's an important part of the visual effects supervisor's job to get really deeply embedded in production and keep us all focused on trying to generate the best result. I'm not proprietary about, 'I would rather do this effect than let physical effects do it.' No, let's do the smartest thing for the movie.
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To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.
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Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.
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What gets yme excited about a project and character is the director, the script, who's involved in the movie, and the character. Those are pretty much the essentials. If it's something different, if it scares me, in a way, if it will stretch me or push me into certain places that I haven't been to, then I like that. If you're just trying to talk yourself into it, then it's probably not for you. It's hard to be selective.
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You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work.
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I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'
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I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick.
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Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.
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Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.
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For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.
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Obviously when the threes aren't going it's time to stop shooting them. We kept going to it and got desperate at the end trying to hit home runs. We can't do that.
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After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
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I've done movies that were maybe not worth it, but I try to take the best from every experience. You learn more from bad experiences sometimes. It gives you more will to overcome your mistakes. They give you determination.
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The title of my book is 'American Histories,' plural. And as far as I'm concerned, my reading of history is it is a sort of nightmare. It is a sort of nightmare, and I'm trying to wake up from it. And as any nightmare, it's full of much that is unspeakable.
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Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.
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There is a tremendous amount of pressure when you are a world No. 1 with everyone behind you trying to knock you down. But I always believe you should be enjoying the pressure at the top. It is a case of being able to relax and keep playing the game that got you there in the first place.
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I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.
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All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.
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As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.
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I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.
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We're trying to get better, and we're not where we want to be -- but we've progressed. If we stay consistent on defense, we'll be fine. We'll get the easy baskets and then won't have rely on jumpers.
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There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.
