"And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else."
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"My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that."
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"Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched."
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"I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business."
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"Fear will try to keep you from taking that first step. Don't give in to fear, do it afraid."
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"I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I bend."
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"I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you give power to the force that is trying to defeat you."
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"It's unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you've got to go and try to dismantle this guy."
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"I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out."
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"If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner."
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"I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the work in its breadth, its narrowness, its height, its depth...I hear and see the image in front of me from every angle as if it had been cast and only the labour of writing it down remains."
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"We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between."
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"When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately."
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"Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally."
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"The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us."
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"Always when I come to the field, I try to do my best for other people."
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"Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature."
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"I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came."
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"Anger can try to break your heart, but sorrow is what will. What can. What does."
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"I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned."
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