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"He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for."
"Hey, this is terrific!" he said. "Someone down there is trying to kill us!" "Terrific," said Arthur. "But don't you see what this means?" "Yes. We are going to die." "Yes, but apart from that." "Apart from that?!" "It means we must be on to something!" "How soon can we get off it?"
"All the care I would take, all the love that we made.. Now you trying to find somebody to replace what I gave to ya"
"Trying to tell you I'm the one, come and holla at me before I'm on the next thing, YMCMB."
"Landmarks to the muses that inspired the music. When I could tell it was sincere without trying to prove it"
"I'm on a 24 hour champagne diet. Spillin while I'm sippin I encourage you to try it."
"Being bi-racial and being young along with being American and Canadian [allows me to] try and cover all the bases and expand my fan base to a level that has yet to be seen."
"I don't understand myself in relationships and I don't understand relationships. So to continue to explore them and to try and work that out is honestly what I am really doing."
"It's exciting to try to do something in a totally different way - to bring out something totally different in me as a filmmaker. It's time to try something totally different."
"I'm kind of ADD. So I try to do one thing at a time. Otherwise, I would be sort of scattered and won't be 100% where I need to be for certain things."
"When we do work in places like China and Vietnam, research tends to be really effective as a way of getting change, whereas in more open places, mobilization and the creation of public pressure through the media often seem to be the things we try."
"Lots of people in the open system are very determined to try and strengthen evidence-based policy."
"The question, "When did you last listen to a poor person properly and try to understand what's going on inside their own experience?" enables you to connect."
"I can't pass on an acting career to my kids. But I'm going to try to juggle both."
"Look at his face. I bet his cornflakes try to crawl out of the bowl."
"I always try to address where I am. I'll talk to the people and try to find out what it is about that particular place that makes it distinct from everywhere else."
"Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't."
"I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like this, and that's really up to them, that's fine, but I don't sit around all day analysing it. I just try and enjoy a show and interest myself because if I don't do that then I won't interest anybody else."
"What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it's generally my fault and not theirs."
"We're never trying to manipulate and mess with... When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know."
