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Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.
We try to make the sound hold as much relevance as it does on the record you know, we don't try and interpret it in a different way.
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way
The better you get, the more your legacy shines. I always just try to go hard. If you don't want do it for real, don't do it at all.
And they'd [the Death Eaters] love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in.
I can't handle the paparazzi. They're everywhere. One of them was in a dumpster trying to take my photo the other day. It was crazy!
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.
Don’t,” Michael said. It was soft, and it was a warning, through and through. “You try to hurt her again and I’ll pull your arm off.
My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.
God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.
The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not.
Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.
I'm someone who thinks that where there's a void, I need to fill it, but I'm trying to have patience and a little bit of discipline.
I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family.
I try to be really, really specific, because each character is really an individual and you have to find out what makes them unique.
It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.
Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.
For me there was never a lot of glamor involved in being a junkie, it was about trying to hide the puke and bloodstains on my shirt.
Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.
If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.
I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.
When people try to stop free speech, stop people from talking, it creates pressure in the system that might cause people to act out.
Whenever I see that ball coming my way I am just hungry to get it. When I get the chance to take it I try to score as much as I can.
I don't come up with ideas, they come to me. I write them down and try to convey what's wrong with me to the audience as best I can.
If I learned one thing working at Facebook: If users are trying to use your app in a certain way, get out of their way and let them.
I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.
I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.
I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.
I think the only way for you to grow and evolve is to keep listening, keep moving forward, keep jumping in and trying to experience.
Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
We try to do what's right, or rather what other say is right. But sometimes, when that goes against who we are...you have to choose.
I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.
When we're not trying to kill each other with spells, we just sit in in Daniel's dressing room watching cricket games on television.
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
If I continue to just get to the playoffs every year, I guess you could say I arrived, but right now I'm just trying to find my way.
We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.
Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.
I was just trying to get his attention!" the man protested at the top of his lungs. "If he'da listened, I wouldn'ta had to bash him.
We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
I’m going, and don’t you dare try to stop me.” I ran through the door, willing myself to make it downstairs before I started to cry.
I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.
I've got the opportunity of a lifetime. Some great things are happening because of momentum and I'm just trying to seize the moment.
I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music.
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.