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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.
Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.
I was trying to point out I'm not opposed to gays having their partnership. I'm opposed to gays using the term marriage for their relationship.
I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.
We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
After initially trying to defend his remarks about gun-toting, tabacky-chewing, bitter Jesus freaks, Barack Obama is now backpedaling furiously.
We can try to reform healthcare, but the fact is if we don't have a healthy food source, we are only treating the symptoms and not the problems.
It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.
I like to apply storytelling methods and techniques to try to frame the story in an interesting way, but you can never control what's happening.
I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.
I would definitely say that I am a very big movie musical fan in general and I try to see every one that I possibly can - and 'Glee' every week.
If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.
The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.
I'm being a lot more consistent, trying to make every swing look the same. I'm doing what the situation calls for and trying not to do too much.
My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.
I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!
I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.
I'm not trying to be cosmic, it's just that everything's on a roll and that's how it is. The songs within the album discuss that very condition.
[Andy Murray] tries to get you to do a lot of different things. He tries to throw you off by giving you some slower balls and some harder balls.
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.
If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
The worst thing you can try to do is to steer the story once it gets going. You just kind of follow along and see where it goes. That's the fun.
I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.
We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.
That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.
We're going to try to do more to communicate the value of activation to customers in addition to making the process simpler and more consistent.
You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart.
What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you.
I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.
Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.
We all have a wrong idea of ourselves. I am always changing, and I will continue to change. So, I never try to describe, define or judge myself.
Some people try to say I'm British by the way I'm speaking. But I think I'm more Canadian, because I speak really slow. Midwestern and Canadian.
Nothing - I mean nothing - and no-one - I mean no-one - will stop me going through to the end, and trying to be ready for the challenge of 2007.
I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.
It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
I try not to be judgmental. I meditate twice a day. I get some sort of physical exercise. I infuse my life with love. I love what I do, the job.
... it can often be profitable to try a technique on a problem even if you know in advance that it cannot possibly solve the problem completely.
I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.
Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.
It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.
If you have your wife, and you are proud of something she's done, wouldn't you go and support her in something? That is what I was trying to do.
I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.
With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.
So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.
Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.