"My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth."
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"Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad."
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"Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you."
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"I decided that I wanted to explore all kinds of music with my cello, not just the Western classical tradition. I just wanted to try and expand my vocabulary and bring that different kind of music to my audience."
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"I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time."
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"I'm trying to just drop so much music that people cannot ignore it."
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"My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things."
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"I think when you first get a job, you're just trying to do what the last regime did, just to keep it going, as opposed to actually doing what you want to do."
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"If we go into white congregations, non-whites will sometimes say it felt like worship never started. It was sort of dead and didn't feel that warmly received. But so - and there are different realities either way, and it makes it difficult for all groups to try and cross boundaries."
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"What sort of difficulties would happen when people of different cultures try to come together to worship? Tiny little things such as let's tell jokes with each other."
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"So they actually put it into their mission statement, and they start changing things as a result. They may change how worship works. They may actively recruit folks and try and get them to come and help them to feel comfortable and get them involved in leadership, and there's a variety of ways."
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"And then they would have the shoe removers on one side, and the non-shoe removers on the other side until they could work through coming to understand why we might both be trying to worship authentically, and because of our cultural background we have these different ideas. But it took a while."
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"There's always that sense of because we're so racially defined, if you're trying to cross the boundaries you don't fit into any particular space."
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"I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them....But here you are, trying to remember your own life, writing your thoughts down so that you don't forget. I suddenly realized what it would be like not to know, not to remember."
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"And now, if we try to assign a value, in and of itself, outside its relations to the dream and with error, to classical unreason, we must understand it not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled."
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"Ted Cruz is trying to have a one-on-one debate with Donald Trump."
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"It's all about patience and persistence - you often have to expose a child to a new food numerous times before he or she will begin to like it. So keep trying!"
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"I try to be thoughtful about spreading the wealth: young designers. Mixing things up is important to me."
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"I know what makes me happy. I pick the clothes that make me happy - sometimes people like them, sometimes they don't. I try to listen to my own internal guide."
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"I've always tried to make sure that what I do really connects with the broader agenda of what my husband is trying to do."
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