"I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work."
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"The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out."
"My suggestion for a fast style upgrade would be to embrace a pop of color or pattern. Try layering a bright, pullover knit on top of a dress shirt with a subtle or bold pattern."
"Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much."
"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business."
"I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties."
"What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better."
"Yeah, it's been a ride I guess I had to go to that place to get to this one Now some of you might still be in that place If you're trying to get out, just follow me I'll get you there"
"That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it."
"I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult."
"I more remember the periods of time when I wasn't getting any auditions. That's more what I find painful in memory; that feeling of not even getting the chance to try and be rejected."
"Before you quit, you have to try"
"For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment."
"I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made."
"Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth."
"Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring out the steak - "I killed this for you, now I'm grilling it for you.""
"I try to look on the bright side, but it really hurts my eyes."
"I try to live in the moment, but by the time I get there it's too late."
"As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me... I can scarcely keep pace and must watch out that the creative forces do not chase me around the universe in a wallop."
"I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too."