Trying Quotes
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When you have it, you spend it. The mistake is to try to spend it when you haven't got it.
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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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The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.
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We've had a century in which we've allowed some industries to basically pollute the air, pollute the water, pollute the ground, pollute the rivers, and we've been trying sporadically to clean air acts and ways of regulating them. But we now are sitting in a world that's filled with all sorts of materials that we don't really know the impact of. It's not like they're necessarily all poisonous but it's odd to put all these materials into our environment and watch.
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For me, having a daughter made me much more efficient and productive. I would wake up in the morning trying to figure out how to organize my day so that I could get home. The phone calls with friends, the lunches out with colleagues - all of that got scrapped so that I could be as efficient and productive as possible.
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I'm already popular in my city. I was just trying to get rich. Man, I'm not gonna lie to you; I didn't really want to go back to school. I mean, my family was mad about that. Because, you know, you tell your family you want to rap, and they look at you like you're crazy.
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I've had plenty of friends tell me that their first time doing stand-up, they do well, and then they tank for a while after that. Kind of like the first time you do a drug, you're like, "Huh! This is pretty darn good," and then you spend all your money trying to get the same high.
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I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.
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By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in.
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I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!
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I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.
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I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they're trying to inject into a story.
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You have to write the story that's at the front of your head. There is no point in trying to write for the market; it won't ring true.
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I feel like the sky in my mind is bigger when I meditate. It helps you fight the classic battles we're all fighting: trying to find love, trying to find satisfaction in your career.
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There is no failure except in no longer trying.
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Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist
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As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.
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Creating one single story often requires experimenting and planning and falling on your literary rear more than once before you find the way that works for your particular tale. The most important issue is to keep on trying until you get it right.
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You don't sell the team short and say, 'We're just trying to make the playoffs,' or anything like that.
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As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.
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It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
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Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.
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The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is impossible because the perfection is only ever an instant passed through. Love like travel is a series of moments that we immediately leave behind. Still we try to hold on and embalm against all evidence and common sense proclaiming our promises and plans. The more I loved him the more I felt hope. But hope acknowledges uncertainty and so I also felt my first premonitions of loss.
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I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
