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Ted Leo Musician
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"There's a lot of discussion about whether you should be a good live band or a good studio band. I think you can use the studio to make a great "studio record" and not necessarily have to reproduce exactly that on stage, but still be a great "live band." Having said that, if what you're going for is just the raw capture of your live sound, then that's cool, too - go for it! I enjoy working in the studio, though, and while I try to get near to an approximation of what's going on onstage, it's not my first priority usually."

Thinking Trying Priorities
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Ted Leo Musician
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"When I started playing solo 10 years ago, I had some ham-fisted idea about trying to subvert the "singer-songwriter" tag/genre, and I tried to obscure my identity into the identity of a collective or band or whatever. That's part of the reason that I used to play with backing tapes and why so much of my early stuff was so awash in tape hiss and echo noise."

Trying Identity Obscure
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Teddy Thompson Musician
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"I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didnt spend that much time with him. I used to put head phones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and kind of had a weird bonding in a way."

Trying Parent Dad
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Teddy Thompson Musician
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"I don't try to stop myself from becoming too personal. I just put it all out there. If anything, I try to remind myself to be as honest as possible all the time. Why hold back?"

Trying Honest
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Teddy Thompson Musician
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"For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to."

People Trying Long
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates."

Men Trying Action
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"We cannot hoard life as we can money. When a person tries to be a miser of his health, he usually makes himself miserable. Mental talents, if buried and not used, tend to deteriorate. Whoever would save his memory by not using it will lose it."

Trying Memories Talent
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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you."

Trying Needs Perspective
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Viktor E. Frankl Psychiatrist, Neurologist
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"How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we many even try to predict the mechanisms or "dynamisms" of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche."

Men Trying Machines
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"The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming."

Trying Ugly Ill
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Teju Cole Author, Photographer
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"The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of doing this; the mode I prefer is indirect."

Trying Reality Novelists
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality we're embedded in is itself some kind of an organism and is evolving toward a conclusion."

Trying Reality Psychedelic
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!"

World Children Trying
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Teresa Giudice Television Personality
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"I try to look at things in a positive way. If someone says something negative to me, I'll just turn it around into a positive."

Trying Looks Negative
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