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Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you'll lose.
I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this
This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.
If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
I try to not be too hard on myself regarding my diet. I've always been a workout-to-eat kind of a girl. I like to eat, to say the least.
We spend so much time and expend so much energy trying to gain a sense of worth from othersultimately, only God's opinion of us matters.
I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can.
Anna looked at Brother Wolf. ‘I’d like to see someone try to put a radio control collar on Charles. It might be fun to watch on YouTube.
If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.
I would try to pick the guitar up sometimes, like, "Hey, remember me?" It was like reintroducing yourself to someone who's got a grudge.
You know, if you're trying to mark your territory, you could've just peed on me before I came over here and saved us both a lot of time!
What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in some form.
Max, if you survive your final test, can you steal me one of those magic outfits for me?" I'll try to get one for each of us. Hey! 'If'?
I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.
You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.
The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.
I think it is important that we all try and be green where it is possible; an awareness of the world around us can never be a bad thing.
Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center.
I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.
I enjoy research as much as writing so I try to make my stories as fact-based as possible, which I think helps them seem more authentic.
If you think the cause of your problem is 'out there,' you'll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.
Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about... If you want to get along, go along.
Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.
All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.
No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you're screwed because it's all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain't in it.
We have to get out of the mind-set of saying, "No matter how hard we try, we will have accidents," and into "We will not have accidents."
Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.
Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.
I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.
I've got five months of aggression saved up, and I'll try and use that in a positive manner. I'll be aggressive, but in a controlled way.
You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.
I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.
After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience.
I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.
I've decided to hire a 'food taster', not because I think anyone is trying to kill me, but because I want to make sure it's not to salty.
Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful.
It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.
I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.
It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.
I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.
Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.
Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.
If I didn't know better, I'd think you were trying to get me drunk," I said to Ranger. "Not drunk," Ranger said. "Just relaxed and naked.
I got to try things that I might've been uncomfortable doing if I had been in a larger setting with a studio and producers looking at me.
Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It is a teacher, a clarifier, and your friend, especially if you are trying to make change.
I'm trying to transform behaviors and ideas that have never been challenged in certain ways in my life. I'm not the kid that I was at 19.
The Democratic lawmakers are still trying to figure out how to capitalize on this new wave of leftist anger, if you want to call it that.