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As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.
There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.
I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.
I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.
If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.
The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.
This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private . Always have an ace in the hole.
Somebody is always suspecting Russia of having some ambitions, there are always those who are trying to misinterpret us or keep something back.
I think I'm a shy, self-conscious person who thinks he's being looked at and tries to look okay. Not in a hottie, narcissistic way necessarily.
The world would become better off If people tried to become better. And people would become better If they stopped trying to become better off.
I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.
Never," said Hagrid irritably, "try an' get a straight answer out of a centaur. Ruddy stargazers. Not interested in anythin' closer'n the moon.
I try to give everyone options because no matter what you think you're going to wear, what you actually put on depends totally on how you feel.
If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.
I try to just pay attention to what I'm feeling. If something is scary to me, then that's sometimes a good sign - although, sometimes it's not.
I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never trying to lose weight - or gain it. I'm just being.
But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.
I feel like any experience you can have which adds to your repertoire of things you've done and can add to your character - I'm willing to try.
When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply.
Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing.
Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.
I feel like I have re-created myself on every album. I try to do that. It's like playing a game with yourself, trying to compete with yourself.
I always try to choose material that I would want to go and see. I don't choose movies anymore to be in that other people wouldn't want to see.
We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us
It’s been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.
My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me any more. It belongs to you.
I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.
Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was masterful in doing that.
As an actor, you always want to try new things, so the fact that they set it up so that you can be doing different things each season is great.
Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.
The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--
Men rise through the ranks because of potential, but women have to prove themselves - while trying to have children and having no family leave.
People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.
I think everyone needs to try their first script, and usually the first one isn't as good. You learn so much as you're trying to figure it out.
When you believe in what you’re doing, that’s the first thing. And you have to be resilient, because people are going to try to knock you down.
If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.
I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.
I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don't like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.
John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.
The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.
Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.
Anytime there is any lyrical meaning or combination in my mixes, it's very blatant. I'm not trying to make any statement or anything like that.
No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.
We are trying to send our message to let the world know what is happening and what will happen to the Maldives if climate change isn't checked.
I try to convince myself that it's the alcohol talking. But alcohol can't talk. It just sits there. It can't even get itself out of the bottle.
I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
The Chilean novelist Isabel Allende says there's no such thing as writer's block, you just need to live a bit more. I try to bear that in mind.