"My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying."
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"I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music."
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"God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me."
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"God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through."
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"I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do."
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"Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong."
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"To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous."
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"I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps."
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"Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect."
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"I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better."
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"I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to."
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"I was a very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today I'd say, 'You're very talented and I'll try to help you, but I don't want anything else to do with you."
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"Government Picking Winners and Losers = Corruption. When government tries to pick winners and losers, the inevitable consequence is corruption. Yes, corruption. If not in a legal sense, certainly in a moral sense"
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"You can't go through life trying to please everyone."
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"I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason."
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"Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in."
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"That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life."
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"I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my team-mates."
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"I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change."
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"The principle I adhere to when directing, is that I make good use of everything my staff creates. Even if they make foregrounds that don't quite fit with my backgrounds, I never waste it and try to find the best use for it."
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