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The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.
Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!
I have a personal motto that I live by, which is feel the fear and do it anyway. If you fail, you get up and you keep trying again.
If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.
You just work at it. You just keep grinding away, keep trying to get better, and if you got the ability, one day you have a chance.
You try to do as little as you can, but you need to do as much as is necessary to get a result. When you get a result, you do less.
I - I try to do as much as I can, wherever I am. So, at the farm, I'm always thinking of some new project, some new thing I can do.
Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?
I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.
I just love music, so that's what I'm always working on, and I try to say yes a lot. Maybe I'm more ambitious than I thought I was.
Occasionally people will look at me and do a double take and theyll look at me like theyre trying to think where they know me from.
Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position.
I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.
Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects.
As an actress, you want to try new things. You don't want to repeat yourself. That becomes more important to you, as you get older.
I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.
A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.
Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.
I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.
My first restoration was on Napoleon, trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.
I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.
That's what I try to do, my wife and I, we try to, not shelter them [kids], but still not contribute to the delinquency of a minor.
there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.
There are obviously people who want to be very niche, but I think for the most part everybody is trying to reach a larger audience.
Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!
I shall charm him with such force that when I am done, he will be left lying limply on the ground, trying to remember his own name.
No matter what you're trying to do there will be noise in the market... Before the race starts, I'm already focused on the victory.
I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the things to keep it smooth going!
...even misplaced faith can help us gain knowledge. We try to be smart about where we put our faith and we adjust as we learn more.
There was a positive side to not trying at something: you could always pretend that your life would have been different if you had.
As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists.
When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.
One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.
My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.
Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.
What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.
If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.
It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.
I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.
We weren't going anywhere," Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.
I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.
I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.
I feel comfortable, I'm definitely feeling challenged but with each day I gain more experience. I'm just trying to improve each day.