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As a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.
Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?
You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.
If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.
The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence
We need to lay hold on the feelings and try to control them to keep us from getting into a circumstance that leads to sinful behavior.
Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.
We could be unhappy and discouraged for ourselves, but we're trying to be in a high vibratory state so we can be of service to others.
I'm not a "what if." I want to just do it, try it, give it my all, and if it's not meant to be, I can accept that. But I had to do it.
It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.
Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.
I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.
A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.
There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.
It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.
I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.
I also always carry my flute. It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.
Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'
I think if you can take care of yourself, and then maybe try to take care of someone else, that's sort of how you're supposed to live.
Those who speak much are blamed, those who speak little are blamed. In this world there are none who are not blamed. Try not to blame.
All I've seen agents do is talk players into having bad senior seasons because they're trying to keep themselves from getting injured.
Each Desaparecidos's song has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.
For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.
I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.
I don't see any negativity with what Brad Pitt is doing with his Make It Right Foundation, or what Sean Penn is trying to do in Haiti.
My rule is if one person says it, a thousand people want to say it. That goes for compliments too. I try to balance it out in my head.
Try to remember the reason you started riding a motorcycle in the first place. For me, it was a couple of things but mostly rebellion.
Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?
The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader.
A lot of times I'm traveling or have appointments, so I don't get to work out every day, but I try to get to the gym as much as I can.
Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.
For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
The secret is to try and do 75% of the things you're really passionate about and maybe 25% doing the shitty jobs that have to be done.
I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.
I suppose you retire from trying. If you retire from trying, you think, "Maybe love will just come my way if I don't want it anymore."
One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.
In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Stock speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same.
If at first you don't succeed, try management. Indecision is the key to flexibility. If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.
I basically eat a lot of proteins, and I've been eating smaller portions of food. I try to eat all locally raised and organic produce.
At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.
I think I generally try to buy the best quality and keep it simple. I don't try to make too many decorations, too many things with it.
You can't say Hillary Clinton is not evolving as a candidate. And boy is she trying very hard to move to where the Democratic base is.