Trying Quotes
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Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.
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We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside, because we're inside. God forbid something like a cockroach comes inside, or some dust.
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There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.
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You have to emote much more to get what you're trying to get across to come through a quarter inch of latex that's superglued to your face.
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I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.
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I remember having meetings with Republican senators who initially had been trying to engage [Obamacare] but saw that the politics of 'no' were growing inside the Republican Party.
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If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.
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I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
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To me, life is so exciting. To me, life is always trying to beat someone in something competitive. It's kinda been my whole life.
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The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of American reality.
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The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.
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I try to make all my work as honest as possible. I want the audience to feel like they're watching two people talking-having a conversation-as opposed to watching actors fake it. I want the audience to get lost in the fact that this is so good it could be real.
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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 hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.
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I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.
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I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.
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I'm a show pony, and I don't get to skate with girls doing triple Axels every single day. I skate with little babies who are working on their single Axels while trying not to hit them on the ice.
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I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
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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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I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing.
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If I start trying to make a record for what I think could possibly get played on radio, I'm dead.
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If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.
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I think anybody who looks at my record will say I've been trying to cut government spending and make government live more like families do.
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Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.
