The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

What keeps me going? I guess it's just a desire to keep trying to contribute and do things in life.

At the White House, they caught another fence jumper earlier today. It was Obama trying to get out.

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.

I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.

One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.

Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.

I don't want to be Oprah [Winfrey], I'm not trying to be Barbara Walters, but we can all do better.

You have to try and embrace it all and everyone who represents that change because it is happening.

We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance

On a daily basis, jeans and t-shirt is still sexy, but it doesn't look like you're trying too hard.

If I'm going to be president, I will try the best I can, and I'm a very good dealmaker, believe me.

I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.

I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.

A chance to try your technique is in one instant never to be regained, so try it without hesitation.

I should’ve known the day was going to turn out bad when it started with my father trying to kill me

In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.

Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.

Usually, when I act, I try to forget the words and let them come, and just find my way through them.

I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.

Trying your best is bringing your best... that's the way to do it! Desire and passion is everything.

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.

I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough.

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.

The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.

When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.

When I do interviews, I enter them with an open mind and try to answer the questions the best I can.

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

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