Trying Quotes
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If you are not able to transmit what you're trying to achieve to your collaborators, you will only have minions - or morons.
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I think the fan access is complicated, because it brings wonderful things into my life, and it brings really negative things into my life. I just try to keep the negative stuff at arm's length. Laugh at it and walk away.
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Actors are always trying to cry and people are actually trying not to cry.
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The greatest in heroes in life are the anonymous. That's what I believe. Your neighbours are heroes. People who, when you walk down the street, you see them feeding their little baby - these people are heroes because they are living under difficult situations, but they're still trying to save a life.
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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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I don't watch rushes. My whole thing is to try to stay in the moment with the other actor, and to let it all hang. I'm not sure I'm right on that, though.
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Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying now. Gamers don't sit around.
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We started off as this platform inside Facebook; and we were pretty clear from the beginning that that wasn't where it was going to end up. A lot of people saw it and asked, 'Why is Facebook trying to get all these applications inside Facebook when the web is clearly the platform?' And we actually agreed with that.
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When you're younger and a little more innocent, you write whatever [lyrics] comes naturally. But as you get used to writing you try to steer the sound and music to different music and throwing in the "kitchen sink" of sorts into the music. With that way, you end up putting in much more than before and you could even make much more next time around.
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I think if you're not trying to change things a little bit, you're not evolving.
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Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You're not in charge.
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This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.
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Just try to give as much as you can through your daily life to yourself and the people around you.
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When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most probably, we do not have a fate. But I think that's something that draws us to novels - that the characters always have a fate. Even if it's a terrible fate, at least they have one.
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Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.
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Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be.
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For a long time I wasn't happy, but that had nothing to do with Beyonce. That had to do with me trying to get my life in order and make better decisions for myself. I'm seeing all these wonderful things happen for her, and I am happy for her. But I want a path. I want things to pop off for me, too.
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Young black men in this country have to understand that they have a responsibility. They cannot be the enemy in their own neighborhoods and usurp the effort of good people that are trying to make things work.
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Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.
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I wouldn't say that I'm actually trying to cause chills in the audience, but certainly my goal is to, at the very least, effect a physiological response - at the most, to effect some sort of state change, ideally, in the audience.
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It's a really big weekend. There's a lot more on the line for us. We're playing to try to get somewhere, even if it's a community college. We're trying to get looked at.
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I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.
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I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.
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What we're trying to do is take these words and soften them. I'm an African-American comic. I use the b-word in my act.
