Trying Quotes
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Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.
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I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i'm trying it out.
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How heartening it is to know that Ken Loach is still out there making committed, polemical cinema, so long as you don't have to watch it. Never go near a Ken Loach film unless you're trying to sleep with a socialist. If you are, however, Land And Freedom should do the trick.
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My characters are turned upside down and trying to reinvent themselves but don't need a white knight. They can save themselves in a crisis.
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I'm big on showing people versatility. I'm constantly trying to push myself to break barriers and the idea that we have to stay in one lane.
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I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.
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In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.
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I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.
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I'm not the 'chosen one.' I'm just one of many who have been given gifts. I can write. I can bloviate on TV. So I'm trying to use the gifts in a positive way. And I believe that's all directed. And that's why I'm here on the planet.
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If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.
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I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.
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I'm completely dyslexic - it's the writing part. People read what I've written, and they have no idea what I'm trying to say.
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I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.
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I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.
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There's a motto, if you fail and fail, you come back and try again. I've had a couple of failures here in America and close calls, especially in Major Championships, and it's great to finally, finally win.
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You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.
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I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.
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Poetry is poetry. My process is I try to write the best poem I can, in the best way to communicate whatever it is the poem is trying to communicate, and then I try to figure out the best way to present that poem to a live audience. It's all craft, just different stages of craft.
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I try my jokes onstage. The only way to really find out if something is going to work is to try it on stage, and I try to be careful and bookend something new with a strong bit before and a strong bit afterwards. But it's fun to run on virgin snow. I like that feeling onstage of creating new footprints and not knowing what's going to happen.
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I try to be bad, but nobody will let me.
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Our to-do lists are so full that we can't hope to complete every item on them. So what do we do? We multitask, juggling several things at once, trying to keep up by keeping busy.
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Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.
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I believe your friends Misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a toilet seat. No doubt they thought it would amuse you.
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You're part of the problem or the solution. Solution means, in my opinion, to be taking extra time and energy in trying to give back to the world.
