Trying Quotes
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To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.
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The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.
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The young people I know judge leaders by their deeds and abhor hypocrisy. Inconsistency and point-scoring do not win respect. It's not easy to be engaged in political debate when it is reduced to performers trying to outdo each other. Actions from leaders must mirror the values they claim to espouse.
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The moment you decide to stop trying to fit in, that’s when you’ve finally figured one of life’s most important lessons..... that you are enough.
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I try to maintain a balance between having a vision of the world that many readers do not experience for themselves, trying to give them enough grounding in the world we are all familiar with, so they don't feel that they are completely lost in Faerie.
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If Republicans truly are dedicated to the sanctity of life, they should be the first ones on the front lines trying to get policies for the uninsured.
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There's really not much conscious thought involved when I record. I just kind of record what feels good. I'm not trying to make it sound like anything.
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There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.
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The Heisman attention has definitely been a little bit of a surprise. It's been out of my hands. It's something I'm not focused on. I'm focused on the season and trying to win as many games as possible.
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I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.
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I think musicians have a responsibility to try and do something that is good. It's so hard. It's very difficult to pull something out of the hat creatively. Although I say it’s their responsibility, it's really just people trying to do the best that they can.
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We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.
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I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.
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I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.
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A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don't necessarily want to be alive.
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NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.
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So that's where it differs for me now, it's the creativity, versus, the raunchiness from back in the days. So I just try to be more creative nowadays.
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I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.
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I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.
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I have a little antennae, and even when I'm trying not to be, I'm connected with the bloody zeitgeist.
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I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.
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I'm just trying to stretch the public space wider and make it more open so that a wider variety of people and faces and stories and perspectives and also expertise can come through. So everything that I do rests on that, trying to support on other voices.
