Trying Quotes
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A writer's job is not complete without attention to precision. What you're trying to be precise about is your relationship to the observed thing. And "observed thing" could include remembered thing, fantasized thing, fictionalized thing, recorded thing, trans-altered thing. It's the model that's in front of you or in your brain or your memory or whatever. So you're trying to be precise about what it is you're seeing because it's very unlikely that you're going to be able to depict it as it is.
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We can't stop trying til we break up our minds, til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knight.
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The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!” Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?” “Don’t try to be clever, young man.” She narrowed her eyes. “It’s elephants all the way down!
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You cannot score 10 goals from 10 shots - that's impossible - but I am trying.
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Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.
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I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.
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I think maybe the key to having a long relationship is really appreciating that person's life and not trying to own it. It's like just stop trying. We all do it.
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There's a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too far. The best any of us can do is to tread that line carefully.
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Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.
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I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
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I try to focus on practice. This is work time. This is where we work, this is our office. I try not to let it distract me too much.
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I am trying to encourage kids to do something that isn’t yet on their mind because it is not in popular culture. Popular culture tells you 'music, music, sports, sports.' It neglects the importance of a STEM education.
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You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
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I'm not trying to make myself look like a girl because I'm not a girl anymore. I'm very happy about being a grown woman.
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In my community everyone seems to listen or have an interest in what I have to say, what I'm wearing, or what I'm doing. They just follow what I do, I don't tell them to. I just try to lead by example.
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Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody.
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If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.
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I struggle to try not to read the press about my album. It was great when the first stuff came out to hear that people liked it, but at the same time at this point it's almost hard for me to read because as much as I'm uncomfortable with my voice, trust me, I'm more uncomfortable with the things I say. laughs To see it on a written page, it's like, "Oh my god. I told that guy I'm a hopeless romantic! What am I doing?"
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We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.
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If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.
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Like I said, you guys in the media will treat the dumbest jack**s in the entire f***ng world like they won a Pulitzer prize for journalism and will put that level of weight on it, like they're an ambassador to some country we're trying to establish trade with.
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I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.
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Be the change you're trying to create.
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I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.
