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We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.
Writers must constantly ask: what I am trying to say? Surprisingly often, they don't know.
If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person.
There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.
To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.
Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach.
There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.
Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.
Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.
Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.
I try to figure my adjusted gross income, but no matter how I figure it, it's still gross.
You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.
I'm just a regular mother who's trying to save lives and be the best human being I can be.
Trying to film a movie on a diet is hard enough, I can't imagine how it would be on drugs.
After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do.
New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.
It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.
If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.
And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.
Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.
I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.
If you tell me you are going to kill yourself, I'm not going to try to talk you out of it.
When you have it, you spend it. The mistake is to try to spend it when you haven't got it.
There should be a drama series about women trying to figure out their mystery leg bruises.
I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
I want people to see me for who I am and not for how someone else is trying to promote me.
If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.
I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to.
The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.
The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.
Why is it when you want the ground to swallow you whole, it decides to stop trying? -Ethon
To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.
There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.
Everyone's just a freak, but some people are trying to hide it and some people embrace it.
They go'n try to stop you, they go'n try. Notice how I said true. We ain't never stopping.
I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.
In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.
If beating yourself up worked you'd be rich, thin, and happy. Try loving yourself instead.
I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.
For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.
If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours?