Trying Quotes
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I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.
Molly Shannon
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If we had 3 percent growth, which is what we're trying to get to, what we're at, by the way, right now, we're trying to maintain that 3 percent growth. If we had been at 3 percent growth over the last ten years, the budget very nearly would be balanced in 2017. That's how big a difference it makes when you grow the American economy that additional 1 percent over ten years.
Mick Mulvaney
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What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.
Henry Louis Gates
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I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!
Helen Gurley Brown
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Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning and reproduction.
Willie Parker
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I was living under a desk in West Hollywood. It was a closet that I shared with another comic. I was shocked when they called me to come in to try out for the show. The chances of me getting on a TV show and winning it is like one-in-a-million. I had only been doing comedy for six years at that point, so I was basically considered an open mic-er or maybe a feature act once in awhile.
Dat Phan
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Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
Helen Keller
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Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.
Emily Haines
Broken Social Scene
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The world is always somewhat vicious. I take that as a given, but at various times in various circumstances that fact will be no more than a shadow or an echo behind some poem. Other times it will be more manifest. I try to write myself into articulations of half-felt, half-known feelings, without program. I'm always working toward getting my world and, hopefully, the world outside of me into a version that makes sense of it. Viciousness requires the same precision as love does.
Stephen Dunn
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My daughter is reading various Young Adult vampire stuff, and I ask her, "Is there even a bad vampire in the story?" There's always a good vampire now, but do any of them sleep in coffins? And I would bring her down to my library and say, "Here's every classic vampire literature. There are coffins, there's this, there's that," you know? "When you get to the YA stuff, you may try some of this stuff just to see where it came from."
Mike Mignola
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I try to avoid people's eyes because I don't like to get that intimate with just anybody. i don't need the responsibility.
Sandra Bernhard
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It drives me crazy when people say, "All we're trying to do is create entertainment." I feel like people go to movies for more than that.
Michael Arndt
