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Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.
That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.
I've always been open. That's made my resume. I go with what happens, and then I try to make good choices with what I get offered.
It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.
There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.
Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.
I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming.
You can't make a movie for everybody. You can't go into it trying to alienate people, but you have to assume that you're going to.
Let the conversation flow at its own pace, don't try to rush it or control it. You need to let go and be part of the conversation.
The worst thing in the world is to feel like people turn on the TV and say, oh god, it's that guy again. I'm trying to avoid that.
Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.
I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives?
You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.
I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.
Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.
I'm at a point where I let my mind go with flow of the music I'm making and it's not interrupted by me trying to please everybody.
Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.
I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.
Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.
I don't feel intimidated by any of the people I'm talking to or the situations I find myself in. I just try to make my nana proud.
Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking at the album cover.
I've learnt that the world over, everyone's essentially the same. We are all trying to have a nice time and get along with things.
When I was very young I was very shy but at the same time I was very open cause I was very curious so I wanted to try many things.
When you try to put everything into music, there's no room left to try to make you think we're cool. We know you think we're cool.
But honestly... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.
Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.
Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.
...those who think that faith is superior to reason, and try to reason me into thinking that way; why don't they faith me into it?
Every at-bat, I try to hit the ball. I don't like to strike out. I put the ball in play a lot, so I'll take the hits as they come.
We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.
Health food shops can make people feel very important; it's like a brand new religion with people trying to convert you to quinoa.
I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.
We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.
I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.
I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.
The one thing you learn as you get older is that the body will do what the body wants. All you can do is try to guide it a little.
I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again.
I try to never look back at how I dressed in the first few seasons of 'Laguna Beach' because it was pretty bad... head-to-toe bad.
He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I'm trying to be more like him as I get older.
If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.
I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.
The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it's ridiculous.
I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.
To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.
Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.
I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.