"I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can."
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"The trouble with audition process is, when you're an unemployed actor, it's the only time you get to act, and it can be quite fun. If you feel in control of the material and you feel that the people are pleased to see you and are excited by you auditioning for them, it can be a really rewarding process. But it can also be a very humiliating process."
"Again, having - fortunately having never been in trouble. And eventually I found out that I was on a watch list."
"Give up learning, and put an end to your troubles."
"Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we!"
"There were always a couple of loonies who caused all the trouble."
"The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can."
"As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her."
"Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!"
"The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior, which is not going to happen. It's going to cause trouble."
"The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes."
"Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble. [Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]"
"No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced on the lot."
"I’m keeping my opinions to myself, they just get me in trouble."
"I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly."
"The trouble with making intelligent suggestions is that you're apt to be appointed to carry them out."
"Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn."
"Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural."
"The trouble, dollIs not moving mountains, butDigging the ground that you're on"
"It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well."