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Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.
The round-up is an aggressive tradition. I'm trying to objectively be a steward of the tradition and what it means in its choreography.
Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.
We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.
I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.
As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.
I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.
You're supposed to have one hand up and one hand down. As you're trying to going up, you're trying to pull someone up at the same time.
And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.
A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.
We start to try to live in tomorrow and the future, and start to think about what we build today as a stepping stone to graduate users.
I think most video game movies have a problem, because they do try and have one foot in one door and another foot in a completely door.
We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom.
For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.
I'm always tempted to say, 'Nah, that won't work.' But I think you should be willing to try ideas out before saying no. Be open-minded.
When I left the Lampoon, I went west to try that out, and discovered that I hated it.They were awful people turning out awful product .
It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.
I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.
Think you can maybe not die for five minutes?" "I'll try,"I told him seriously. "You know, if anyone else said that, it would be funny.
I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.
It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think "Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.
Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to make the work feel fresh.
For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.
The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.
Never try to make Americans or foreigners feel at home - had they wished to feel at home, they would have remained in their own county.
I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.
I used to follow trends and try to do exactly what I saw in the magazines, but I'm not a Victoria's Secret model who can wear anything.
The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.
Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.
In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.
I'm not saying I know everything about love. I'm still trying to figure out girls... I don't think we'll ever totally figure out girls.
I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It's honorable.
Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.
Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.
I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions.
I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.
Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable.
The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.
Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.
In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.
I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.
I'm working all the time. When I'm home I try to split my time evenly between resting and preparing for another tour, and writing stuff.
I always tweet about where we're at. Since I'm performing at amphitheaters, I'll try to run up and down the stairs and across the field.
Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.
Whats fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.