Trying Quotes
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what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life.
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I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of the Yale School of Drama. A man in the audience stood up during a post show discussion and announced, “I can't get into this, it's all about girls.” I thought to myself, “Well, I've been getting in to Hamlet and Laurence of Arabia my whole life, so you better start trying.”
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I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors.
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Hosting a game show is so bizarre and uniquely its own thing. Anytime I'm hosting something, I try to bring as much of myself to it as I can, but it's always going to be incomplete.
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I'm trying to work on my modelling career and remove myself from the whole FHM stigma.
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I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.
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My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.
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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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Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.
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If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is.
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How do we compete with the 3D superscreens at the cineplex? We just make it better - because theatre is better because it's live. Instead of trying to be like the poor cousin, we need to accept that we're the king.
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Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress.
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We must not constantly talk about tackling obesity and warning people about the negative consequences of obesity. Instead we must be positive - positive about the fun and benefits to be had from healthy living, trying to get rid of people's excuses for being obese by tackling the issue in a positive way.
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When you get on the pitch, you've got to take your chance, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
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I tell ya, sex is getting harder all the time. Me and my wife were trying to have sex for hours last night and I finally gave up. I asked her, "what, you can't think of anybody either?"
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I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief.
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You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
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I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.
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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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Films were never on my agenda, may be it was written in my destiny. And since I am here, I would like to give it my best try.
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You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.
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Some people say the things I do are annoying because I'm intentionally trying too hard to be relatable, but I'm really not.
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It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.
