Trying Quotes
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What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.
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When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.
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I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.
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We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."
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Brad [Dourif] would tell himself that he was not intentionally trying to mimic Jack Nicholson in any way. I think that actually bothers him a little bit. I just think maybe they have similar voices.
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I don't think Obama is trying to take our guns, and I don't think we have to fight the government to keep them.
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Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on.
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I'm trying to escape the shackles of a pen and a pad. I've sat in sessions with Jay-Z where he doesn't write anything down. He'll come up with the most incredible triple entendre, all in his head - it's amazing.
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My point is, there's no sense trying to squeeze something out of your swing if you can let your clubs do the shotmaking for you.
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I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.
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It is my judgment that had I spent the first two years trying to get a single-payer system, all those folks who now have health insurance that didn't have it would still be uninsured. And those are millions of people whose lives are impacted right now.
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Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.
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If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.
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I am trying to attend every training session and do all of my workouts.
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I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government.
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We are playing with a lot of confidence right now and we believe in each other more than ever. We are looking forward to trying to get in the playoffs and make something happen.
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With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.
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We've all got vices, and we're all freakin' trying.
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It's tough. I mean the thing is that people don't realize how much people are looking at you and judging you and constantly try to, I guess, watch you fail, and hoping you do fail.
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My whole life, I have been trying to cook an egg in the right way.
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I think something that's really important to me is trying to do what I can from my position of power that comes with having a social media platform to dismantle certain systems that I think are really gross and harmful.
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When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.
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My first two or three films, all I was trying to do was look cool. That's all I knew acting was.
