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When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.
There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.
In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.
Structure is nothing if it is all you got. Skeletons spook people if they try to walk around on their own. I really wonder why XML does not.
Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.
Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.
Just remember who you are... The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.
I don't approach my acting as just saying a few lines and then going off-screen. It's a craft. I really invest in trying to make it a craft.
You need a screwdriver for screws and a hammer for nails. Anybody that's trying to screw in a nail with a screwdriver… that ain't too smart.
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm learning to not want to be someone else, to just be who I am, as is, with nothing extra added on.
I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.
Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?" Nico: "Try not to die.
I love being called NTRs grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didnt try enough or maybe because I like it this way.
Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
I've... learned that it's a hell of a lot easier to just build something than to try to convince somebody who doesn't believe it's possible.
If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.
I have a feeling that we have been placed on this earth for a special reason and although I have not fulfilled all my missions, I am trying.
I'm not even fifty yet, but I still feel like Instagram and Spotify - I'm trying to stay with it! It's not easy. The world is going so fast.
It's difficult to stop trying with the one you love. You always hope that this next time might work, might change everything for the better.
It's maybe a good thing to try to make music that feels reassuring in some ways - something that's got a good feeling, a good vibe about it.
A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you give to them, the more circulation they have.
Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.
And if God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something about the deepest nature of matter, he might use some drugged-out surfers.
If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.
People are not going to give up marriage. But we can try to make it more fair. We can try to change that institution and make it more equal.
Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.
I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.
I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice.
I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.
Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.
Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.
This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.
We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.
I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.
It's one thing to be a perfectionist when you're alone, but when you're trying to make it work in an ensemble that's a whole different deal.
If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.
Sooner or later you'll hear what your heart has always been telling you: stop trying to be who you think you should be - become who you are.
I never try boost my career of the less fortunate somebody. Because if I gotta call and get press off of it - it ain't coming from my heart.
For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.
People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.
I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.
I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best
One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.
Honestly, I'm just trying to do the best I can with every opportunity I'm given, and when I'm given the opportunities make the most of them.
While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy.