Trying Quotes
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One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.
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Half delirious, I slipped my hands around Whit's thick neck. The second Idid he got confident.His mouth moved over mine in a rough, unpracticed, awkward back-and-forth motion, so fast it was as if he was trying to create fire with our lips.
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If you have to end up in the hospital, try to focus all your pain in your heart rather than your head.
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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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Believe in yourselves. Dream. Try. Do good.
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Sometimes you have to scare people to save their lives. But I'm very much against it if you're trying to sell a product.
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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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There was an Israeli artist who was in grad school with me. I remember trying to get to know him on a more personal level. He had moved to the Fairfax area, not realizing that it's a super Jewish part of L.A. He told me, I don't understand why American Jews feel this connection with me. I was embarrassed because I was feeling that connection with him, too!
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We live in an era of reinvention: Madonna and everybody desperately trying to change their persona.
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We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.
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There is a huge tension in trying to write with small children because they demand your attention and your time with a fierceness that can be matched by nothing else, but if you are successful in writing while you have small children, I actually think that your writing is likely to be deeper than it was before.
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For years I have told my students that I been trying to train executives rather than clerks. The distinction between the two is parallel to the distinction previously made between understanding and knowledge. It is a mighty low executive who cannot hire several people with command of more knowledge than he has himself.
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Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.
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I'm just trying to age as ungracefully as I can in front of the nation.
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I've always had some sort of affinity for the ends of things. It depends on the song, I try to explore it in different ways. Sometimes when I think about death I'm thinking of it as a physical character that can teach you things and sometimes I'm thinking of it in a finite sense and other times I'm just asking questions that I can't answer. I don't really like to state my personal belief, because I change my mind too often, but I imagine something peaceful. Whether it's a rest or another world or some kind of eternity, it doesn't seem like a scary thing.
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One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It's a wonderful feeling. That's why I try to avoid any knowledge that would spoil the sensation. Sometimes it isn't easy. People keep hurling knowledge at me, and I can't always duck.
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For months I had been trying to be less myself.
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Bud, my self-defense and combat skills teacher, was still trying to get me to learn knife fighting. "Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to nearly all paranormals!" "Tasey!" I countered. "Hot pink and sparkly!
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People occasionally recognise me. But they don't know who I am. I see a lot of bemused looks... They're trying to figure it out.
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You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.
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If you're not really having fun then there's no point of really trying.
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I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of. But they never really went anyplace in particular. I still like them both. What it showed me was that you can spend years on a novel, and then it could just be, like, OK, you spent that time and that's that.
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To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.
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We have a lot of guests who are trying to take over the house and the owner of the house doesn't like it.
