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"It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [Fr., C'est toujours un mauvais moyen de lire dans le coeur des autres que d'affecter de cacher le sien.]"
"I always have been introspective, since I was a little kid, since I could remember, I was sitting in a closet trying to write out the meaning of the universe. That's been my whole life."
"I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge."
"To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out."
"I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway."
"Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes."
"You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it's really gotta be about the work and what you're focusing on."
"When I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it."
"I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you."
"It's amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they're doing. I've learned to take notice of those things and if it's something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life."
"Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed."
"Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed."
"We're not trying to change the world; just music."
"I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it."
"Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always."
"However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to be true to whatever the situation dictates."
"I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional."
"Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart."
"We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people."
"Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are."
