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I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.
Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.
When I try to use incantations at work i often find they have no effect and my coworkers just laugh at me.
It's not me trying to act or pose in a certain way. It's a lifestyle - like a suaveness or a swag, per se.
I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.
The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
Train hard and try new things; everything you do outside of the cage counts as experience inside the cage.
But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.
But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.
When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
I have an urban background, but I need melody, I need a song, so I try to mix and match and keep it fluid.
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
Conflict is a great thing to start with. For me as a songwriter, I am constantly trying to solve problems.
I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
I suppose I will try to enjoy my life now while I have it. Who knows what's going to happen in the future?
I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.
I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.
I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career.
If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'
Happiness is like water. We’re always trying to grab onto it, but it’s always slipping between our fingers
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
I try to keep myself grounded and to stay true to who I am through every experience, positive or negative.
Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.
I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.
[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.
I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.
You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.
When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.
In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.
It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself.
Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.
We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.
Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.
I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle.
Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.'
The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time.
Get outside of their comfort zone and try something new. You never truly grow when you're too comfortable.
We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.
I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.
I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time.
Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies
You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don't step on my blue suede shoes.