"If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard."
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"I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything."
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"It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say."
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"I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself."
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"I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent."
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"I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing."
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"Look, I'm not trying to be critical when I'm on the air."
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"The storm: I close my eyes and, standing in it, try to make it mine."
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"Don't always try to be popular. It isn't possible for everyone to like you. It's far more important for you to like yourself. And when you respect yourself, strangely, you get more respect than when you court it from others."
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"Worrying is trying to figure out what to do to save yourself rather than trusting in God for deliverance."
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"Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world."
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"Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized."
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"Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way."
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"The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does."
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"In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'"
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"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them"
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"You have to be able to say, OK, that happened back then. Now let's take it from here and see what happens. It would be very easy to hate people for the rest of your life, and some people have done that. You've got to deal with what's happening now and try to make things better."
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"Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that's what I'm looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge."
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"I'm always so excited about what I do that I try to get everyone to feel that way."
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"The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted."
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