Trying Quotes
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I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.
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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.
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God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
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The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.
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When the man was disgraced and told to go away, he was allowed to ask all the animals whether any of them would come with him and share his fortunes and his life. There were only two who agreed to come entirely of their own accord, and they were the dog and the cat. And ever since then, those two have been jealous of each other, and each is for ever trying to make man choose which one he likes best. Every man prefers one or the other.
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If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.
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I'm not trying to be an inspiration, but I'm flattered to be considered one.
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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 didn't belong when I was in high school. Now people are trying to buy lips.
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I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.
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The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of doing this; the mode I prefer is indirect.
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Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
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The heartbeat of your originality is deep within a body of thought that continually wrestles with the contradictions and limitations that we're constantly trying to overcome, the curiosities and the ignorances of the people we seek to help.
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I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying.
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Some days I'm just flipping through the iPod trying to get pumped, some days I don't want to listen to anything and just focus. From game to game from day to day, whatever people do to motivate themselves, they do. I do all kinds of things.
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Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
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I've been on a lot of shows that I like, doing guest appearances and little things. I'm just trying to have fun with being retired.
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President tends to feel that he cannot go beyond what the public will support him in doing. So he tries not to decide what is the best course so much as to decide what the people will support.
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Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.
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We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.
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I like doing all different types of comedy - stand-up, sketch, movies, TV. I like to try everything.
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I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.
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Somebody told me I should try writing. Actually, a lot of people tried to get me to try writing, long before I thought I was 'the writing type'.
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Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.
