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I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.
You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.
Obviously, you try not to repeat yourself so that forces you to re-evaluate what you're doing constantly [in Black Mirror].
If you're a fan of hurting others, talking down to, or trying to bring others down, then never call yourself a fan of mine.
Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion
I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?
God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
I've never made a conscious effort to do anything about my psychological side. I just try to think positively and enjoy it.
So that's the challenge, you have a big technical aspect of what you're doing whilst you're creatively trying to improvise.
In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.
I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.
Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable.
I think traditional is trying to go more digital and digital is trying to go more traditional. We're meeting in the middle.
The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.
I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.
Use a screwdriver instead of a hammer. Try to untighten the nut with your hand. Utilize the path of least resistance first.
I'm really trying to focus on the storytelling, more so than ever before I think, partly because it makes for easier pages.
I am influenced by books which dont have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.
I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.
I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place.
What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.
[On reporters trying to cajole a smile from her husband, Alan Greenspan:] For a Federal Reserve chairman, that was a smile.
I'm honest. I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can't not say what I feel. I have a really big problem with that.
I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.
Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny.
I try to make my heart beat out of my chest, hard-core, once a day for at least a half hour. I think that's very important.
By trying to live Christmas 12 months a year, we CAN make this world a better place to live - for others and for ourselves.
He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.
I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.
Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.
I try to be cognisant of when and how and what I eat and get as much rest as I possibly can, as that helps the vocal cords.
One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
In mine, they were just trying to steal a briefcase of cocaine.* That's it. Some flour that I got out of my mom's cupboard.
The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.
When people got old, why did they always develop a passion for scrabbling in the earth? Were they trying to get used to it?
Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.
I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.
The God of Quran is trying to unskin Muslims from their humanity. Muslims are good people. But their God is absolutely bad.
We're never trying to manipulate and mess with... When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know.
I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I bend.
I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.
In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.
There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.
Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.
The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already. You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.
Don't fool people to think you are better than who you are. Instead of trying to act changed, pray that you will be changed.