"Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me."
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"I'm always trying to pop up in different genres, what interests me. Sometimes I just like to throw myself into new situations to see what it feel like."
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"As you get older you don't want to just do the same thing, otherwise there's not much point. I think it's more or less trying to write things that, perhaps, say more by doing less, or you're always trying to refine things, make things a little simpler, a little more essential."
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"We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to keep the flow of love in place. In that sense, he turned the world on its head."
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"If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty."
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"I followed Taylor everywhere. I was always trying to catch up after him or go with him."
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"Generally, you're always shooting in the dark with Beyonce. She's just creative and eclectic and up on always trying to be ahead of the game. That was the moment of me trying to figure out how I wanted to give her another moment."
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"I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened."
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"I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?" How can I understand myself as a cultural creature as well as an individual? I'm really obsessed with that question, and always asking my students to consider it."
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"A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her."
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"I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important."
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"You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it."
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"I think I'm always trying to challenge myself. I'm definitely going a new direction and trying to write more concisely, but that's the toughest part for me and I definitely think I'm growing in that way, which feels exciting."
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"Sometimes, a new toy, a new technology, will focus you. The world is always trying to draw you out, so you always have to remember to go in."
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"I'm always trying to create something that the fans won't expect."
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"I'm actually not a very good driver, to be honest with you. I'm a scatterbrain driver. I'm not very focused. I'm always trying to find the right music station or put on a new CD or trying to eat something."
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"I just passed on some a script that I was sent, because I said, "I haven't yet played the person staying home, the one that says, 'Good luck, honey,' or whatever." And so that's what I look for. Therefore, by virtue of that exclusion, I'm always trying to find roles that are challenging."
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"The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another."
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"I'm always trying to complicate things. For some reason I'll go, "Well, maybe I can get that in," and stuff like that. I always make it really hard for myself."
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"In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children."
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