Trying Quotes
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I always loved writing, be it creative writing for school or just poetry. I just loved writing, and in college, I started really trying to write songs and was copying other artists, just to figure it out - but I think freshman year of high school is when I realized, 'I want to be a writer. I have something to say.'
Chelsea Lankes
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I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.
Martin Lawrence
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I'm not around real dead people all that often - most people aren't - but when you are, you tend to be very, very respectful and quiet, and people do tend to whisper 'cause you're trying to show massive amounts of respect, but if this is your daily life, you have to figure out a way to go about it and not go insane by the time you reach Friday.
Brian Dietzen
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I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.
Adam Grant
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I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.
Big Sean
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Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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My dad told remarkable stories about how kindness helped him through, and he lived his life afterward always trying to make people's lives better.
Daniel Lubetzky
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Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you'd think that I'd have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I'm doing. Actually, they've just kind of let me take the wheel.
Halsey
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We are each one on a road going toward home, but we're not trying to get there for Christmas. We're trying to get there for eternity. We want to arrive home safely to our loving Father in Heaven. He wants us to make it safely there, so He has sent a guiding light for us to follow: a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, the perfect example.
Margaret D. Nadauld
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Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like [Mahatma] Gandhi and setting him on a stage requires thinking about what theater is about and what the whole experience is about and what we're trying to communicate in that way, so you get into certain less abstract considerations.
Philip Glass
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When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
Jack McDevitt
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I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.
David Arquette
