"I don't think anyone loses by trying to be loyal to their dreams."
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"Whether you are a writer, or an actor, or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else."
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"If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again."
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"I think you can talk about anything if the context is correctly arranged. If you set up the context and you bring the audience along carefully enough with you, you can get them to cross the line with you. What I try to do is talk about things that bother me, and I hope that in doing so I bother other people."
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"It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there."
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"We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat."
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"You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane."
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"You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane."
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"The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill."
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"I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been. I remember fragments of my dream, and I try to take a traditional sort of approach to researching this project and doing preparation for it."
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"The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts."
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"Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free"
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"The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what's one's future to try and do, and after that do it."
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"When you are trying to do something when you are getting started and you are trying to make records for the first time, you want it to be the best."
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"The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish."
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"I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world."
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"It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself."
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"I'm trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear."
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"They [China] have indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat."
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"I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education."
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