Trying Quotes
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I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.
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The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.
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It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
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I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
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I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.
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I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
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I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.
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If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.
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If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.
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I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.
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The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.
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I love that program (asset forfeiture). We had so much fun doing that, taking drug dealers' money and passing it out to people trying to put drug dealers in jail. What's wrong with that?
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I had been trying to find a publisher who would put some of my stuff into book form, but I met with no encouragement. Every well-known publisher in the United States turned down Tarzan of the Apes, including A.C. McClurg & Co., who finally issued it, my first story in book form.
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I feel like I filled a niche for myself as a candy freak, trying to find candies all around the world that I couldn't find.
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Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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I think in high school and college, you don't really know what your routine is going to be; you're still trying to come up with it.
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Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
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I was sent to boarding school at the age of ten. I think Mummy was trying to protect me in her own way, trying to spare me living through the day-to-day reality of her illness.
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What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.
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I think you can spread yourself way too thin way too easily, so when I'm trying to create, I'm trying to create ideas for projects and have a vision for other people.
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Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.
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Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.
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In April of 1976, Epic Records was flying out to sign us when I tripped over a light case after a gig and broke my arm. We called the next morning and said, 'Don't go to the airport - Bun E. broke his arm.' They thought Mercury or someone was trying to sign us, so they offered us, like, $25,000 more on top of the deal.
