"That's always been my philosophy: I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don't really have to question what I said or regret anything."
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"You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else."
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"Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose."
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"What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t."
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"I'm trying to make the perfect dance, that's what drives me."
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"You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve."
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"If you don't try things and take risks, you don't really grow and figure out what you want."
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"In charity, every little bit works. You can't change the world. You can't do everything. But you sure try to bring awareness and do as much as you can."
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"Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity"
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"It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible."
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"Stop your ears and close your eyes and try to find the face of love."
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"All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word."
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"May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters."
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"Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is always preoccupied and pre-empted by the tiny pinpoint on the face of the globe called Down East. They try to live not in such a manner that they will eventually be welcomed into Paradise, but only so that someday they can go home to Maine."
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"I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately."
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"We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric."
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"Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young"
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"The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible."
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"You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that."
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"There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail."
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