Trying Quotes
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I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.
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I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.
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I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.
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People told me I made the game look easy and I didn't always look like I was trying my best, but I always was.
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The people I find most beautiful are the ones who aren't trying.
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No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'oh, please pick me.'
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I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.
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Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].
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So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.
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Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.
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You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
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I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.
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There is a vast territory between what we're trying to leave behind, and where we want to go - and we don't have any maps for that territory.
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The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around. Cynicism is paralyzing, while the naïve person tries what the cynic says is impossible and sometimes succeeds.
