"I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come."
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"I always try to get behind the guy steering the ship. That's the kind of guy I am."
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"I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again."
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"But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine."
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"I try really hard to separate myself from other celebrity brands."
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"Take a moment each day to focus on the good, and then try to carry that with you throughout the day, because while bangs don't look good on everyone, confidence does."
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"I try to never look back at how I dressed in the first few seasons of 'Laguna Beach' because it was pretty bad... head-to-toe bad."
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"You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist"
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"We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light."
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"In my head I try and reach back, through the fence, past the smoke; I try and grab his hand and pull. Alex, come back. There is nothing to do but sink. The hours close around me, encase me completely, like a tomb."
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"We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart."
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"Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself."
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"The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserliness, and sometimes, it seems, of your very existence, which he tries to ignore."
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"When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one."
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"Get outside of their comfort zone and try something new. You never truly grow when you're too comfortable."
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"I try to take the pain and find a way to use it in my work; I find that it makes the work deeper."
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"There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before."
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"I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else."
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"Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form"
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"I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it."
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