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I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.
- I hate to break this to you, Cameron, but you are only human. - Shh... I've been trying to keep that under wraps for years.
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.
Have you been tormented with fears and doubts? Bombarded with temptation to sin? Try praising the Lord, and watch Satan flee.
I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.
I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.
My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.
A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep.
Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.
I try to do different roles and try to immerse myself deeply and see what they need to be that's different than the last one.
When a problem first arises, try to remain humble and maintain a sincere attitude, and be concerned that the outcome is fair.
I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.
All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh.
I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.
No, I'm not the prototypical leadoff man. I'm not the prototypical anything. I just try to be the prototypical Jimmy Rollins.
Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.
Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
If I never am better then Kanye, in my brain, I'm always going to be trying to be, forever and ever until the day that I die.
You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.
The painter's appreciation for beauty is more conscious, for he spends his life trying to communicate his feelings to others.
If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.
Being an arrogant braggart just doesn’t work for me. (Devyn) You should try it. It really does grow on you, trust me. (Adron)
The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.
Trying to put music out there in the world is a pretty exciting, yet terrifying, thing and I've just been through the ringer.
When someone comes along later and tries to preach the Gospel to them because they're living in the world, they won't listen.
[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.
Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.
Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.
I'm not an extravagant guy ... I don't like going over the top on anything. I have what I need and I try to keep it that way.
Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.
Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.
Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?
Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There is no pressure in football
The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.
You're trying to get a comfort zone with the parents. You want the family to feel comfortable with me in charge of their son.
She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.
Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.
If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.
The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.
I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.
It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc.
I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.
All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?
An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.
I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.