"Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality."
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"All we can do is try, do our best. Give as much time as we have to give, one day at a time. One breath at a time"
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"It's hard to sing really well when you're playing an instrument, but it'd be great to try and sing really well and have vocal effects and one drummer on a real drum-kit, and one on an electronic kit."
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"To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others."
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"You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them."
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"Brilliant landing.. We´re trying to keep a low profile, and here you´ve gone and made it look like a meteorite hit."
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"How unconvincing. Try again."
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"You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child."
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"Why do these crazy vampires keep trying to collect me?"
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"I'd address his way of trying to discourage Ian later. After all, he could have come up with something other than saying I was a whiny, smelly, trumpet-snoring bad lay."
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"So do you remember this place?" "Hard to forget." he snorted. "This is where you tried to kill me. You were so nervous, you kept blushing. Never had someone try to stake me who blushed so much."
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"I want to know all of you, Kitten. What you show me, and what you try not to."
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"Try not to think too often, you'll only hurt yourself"
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"I was sitting cross-legged in bed, trying without success to pretend I'd misunderstood the image I'd glimpsed. Yeah, right. Because Vlad had been between my legs looking for a set of keys he'd lost."
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"I love you, Kitten. Don't try to get out of this. We'll see if you love me when I pay you back. Even then I will love you, Bones called out as I stomped away."
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"I think Mount Everest is gorgeous, too, but that doesn’t mean I have any intention of trying to climb it"
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"Of course he wouldn't hesitate before trying something that had never been done before. He was Vlad Tepesh. How could he fail?"
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"Unfortunately most easily-digested entertainment has as much actual content as a Spongebob Squarepants episode, so the trick is to try to fit actual nourishing content into enjoyable entertainment."
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"It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here."
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"You don't want your relationship to be in the press, but at the same time, and this is only a theory, the more you try and keep it secret, the more the media tries to crack it open."
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