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Emma Watson Actress, Activist

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"What I find difficult about photo shoots is the line between playing a character - you're being asked by the photographer to take on a role like you would in a movie - and being a fancier version of yourself. It's about finding that line between being spontaneous and open to direction, but also trying to explain to photographers that the "me" is often taken out of context because it has all of this other stuff attached to it."

Trying Character Taken

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Emma Stone Actress

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"My great goal in life is to try to remember that everything is of equal value."

Trying Goal Remember

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Erick Green Professional Basketball Player

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"Whenever I see that ball coming my way I am just hungry to get it. When I get the chance to take it I try to score as much as I can."

Way Trying Balls

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Erik Parker Artist

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"There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences."

Trying Song Artist

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Erma Bombeck Humorist, Writer

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"My mother phones daily to ask, "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no, she adds, "So, if you're not too busy, call me while I'm still alive," . . . and hangs up."

Trying Mother Phones

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

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"I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?"

Trying Looks Drink

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

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"Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man."

Men Trying Littles

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

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"But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone."

Trying Bed Dull

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

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"Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now."

Writing Trying Procrastination

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

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"I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)"

Writing World Trying

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

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"If you're looking for messages, try Western Union."

Trying Unions Crafts

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Eugene Green Artist

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"I don't like things to be overcharged, because otherwise everyone starts getting nervous. I try to be very well organized. When I write the script, everything is already in there, like the decoupage."

Writing Trying Scripts

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Eminem Rapper, songwriter, record producer

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"Try to strip me of my credibility and make me look fake, G you only gonna be in for a rude awakening."

Trying Fake Rude

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Eminem Rapper, songwriter, record producer

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"It's just hard when you've spent so much time on something, writing and recording, laying the vocals, getting the hook right, getting the beat right, making everything sound right - you spent a freaking week trying to make it sound perfect, and someone comes along and shoots it down."

Writing Trying Perfect

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Eminem Rapper, songwriter, record producer

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"Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up."

Trying Style Rap

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Eminem Rapper, songwriter, record producer

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"You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em"

Trying Paper Ems

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Elliott Smith Musician

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"I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record"

Trying Interesting Records

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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist

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"That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best."

Trying Life Is Work Out

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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist

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"Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to live without fear and they end up killing their creativity in the process."

People Trying Creativity

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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist

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"All the parts of us that we ever were are always going to be with us. You make space to carry them and you just try not to let them drive. But you can't chuck them out either."

Trying Space Chuck

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