"Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language."
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"I would probably advise myself 10 years ago not to take life too seriously and to just try to be happy."
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"Does anybody find it creepy how many Grant robots have been on the show? Is it just me or he like trying to clone himself and make a little army?"
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"Once you figure out what your own thing is it's all about trying to develop shows, programs that can, I guess, enhance what you already have and what you can add to Hollywood."
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"If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be."
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"If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot."
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"He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression."
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"Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life."
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"Whether you're 9 or 90, stop trying to fix the things you're bad at, and focus on the things you're good at."
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"My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me any more. It belongs to you."
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"Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down and read it (printouts are best I find, but that's just me) as if you've never seen it before. Start at the beginning. Scribble on the manuscript as you go if you see anything you want to change. And often, when you get to the end you'll be both enthusiastic about it and know what the next few words are. And you do it all one word at a time."
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"A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having...if not died, then having given up her life. It wasn't fair. "Life's not fair," said Ginnie, as if I had spoken aloud."
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"There's a lot of frustration in trying to get music out when you're the only one who hears it, especially if you have something in your head that's not normal."
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"It has been said that genius is only the power of making continuous effort. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it. We are told that there is no failure, except in no longer trying - no defeat, except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own weakness of purpose."
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"Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning."
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"I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work."
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"Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved."
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"You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be: a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist country. And that is a great task."
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"Go back to the breathing and try to be in that moment deeply. Because there is a possibility to handle every kind of event and the essential is to keep the peace in yourself."
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"Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN."
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