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"Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant."
"I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full. And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to."
"Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?"
"My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little."
"Don't try to tackle a two-hour feature movie as your first project. Cut your teeth on a smaller level and work through the kinks at that level and build your strength as you go."
"Never try to have the last word. You might get it."
"I realize Im an ambitious guy, but I just try to take things as they come, you know, for the most part."
"You can get the oldest drum machine out and whack out four sounds like a kick, snare, and two types of high-hat, and try and come up with the freshest thing on the spot. The gear can guide you - you can choose one bit of gear and it's obviously got its restrictions and its limitations, but at the same time, you've got to exploit what it's capable of and what it's best used for."
"When you're in the studio, you've got a narrative for what goes on, you might switch on a bit of gear and it might not work as you intended or come out a bit wrong, and you try and exploit it."
"Despite a lot of people thinking that everything gets more and more difficult, I always assumed that people are going to be "Oh, at last you buckled, you're trying to be commercial.""
"I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing."
"If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more"
"In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular."
"I've been very lucky as far as the things that I've picked, and the way they've worked out. I try to pass on stuff that looks like it's gonna be a bad time."
"These problems are real, and you can't turn off real life. So I won't try. Instead, I'll give you a set of tools to help you deal with real life."
"I'm usually trying to get back into the dream or analyzing the dream. And yeah, the days, most days begin like that."
"He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying."
"I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear!"
"How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style."
"People who tell you that control is bad are trying to tell you that automobile accidents and industrial accidents are good."
