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"Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building."
"Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try."
"I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere."
"Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed."
"Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you."
"Fear is about things that you can't control. The future or the dark, or someone trying to kill you. You don't get scared of yourself because you always know what you're going to do."
""I've never see you do something like this before and I'd love to see you try." For a young actor, that's about the most exciting thing that anyone can say to you."
"As hard as I try to live with some degree of faith in my life, I just can't believe that the full moon can turn dude into a wolf."
"All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write."
"I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space."
"All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human communities."
"What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it."
"The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't trying to beat you over the head with an idea; they had a story they wanted to tell, and they had ideas, so they used the story as a way of fleshing out the ideas. It all depends on where they want to go with it."
"I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything."
"I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories."
"The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight."
"I'm a working mother... You try to pay the bills, you try to keep your life going and there's pressure."
"It's not hard for me to be honest with my fans because that's what I set out to do from the beginning - I've based my entire career off of just trying to do that for them - but I always kind of forget that my real life friends can hear my music and they can watch my interviews if they want and that's when I get kind of like- "oh..." - I don't necessarily sit down and talk to my friends about all the things that I write my music about, because it's easier for me to write music than to sit and talk to my friends about it sometimes- it's almost like writing in a diary."
"I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?"
"We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person."
