"...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong."
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"It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see."
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"Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things."
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"When you lose, you get up, you make it better, you TRY AGAIN."
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"Set your target and keep trying until you reach it."
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"When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted."
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"Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife."
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"Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on."
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"Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from."
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"All I need is one mic . All I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man."
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"I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was."
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"Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!!"
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"As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go."
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"Don't try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you."
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"They can bite, but cannot be us, They can come and pick up little slang but cannot see us, You ought to be ashamed trying to fit in my adidas, So Run like DMC like you don't know you got no heater"
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"Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself."
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"What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?"
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"I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets."
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"I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good in every person."
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"If you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done, but keep trying."
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