"We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant."
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"I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas."
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"Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches."
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"These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn’t conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within."
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"I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an artist and really try new things."
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"One of my least favorite things about being even remotely recognizable is that I'm not allowed to watch in the same way anymore. You try not to hide from the world because you want to still participate and still be inspired by what's around you."
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"When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way."
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"If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art."
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"I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making."
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"He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew."
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"I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is."
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"I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do."
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"We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look."
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"Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it."
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"I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates."
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"The bandleader is a musician trying to sell a mass commodity; and in order to do so successfully he must accommodate himself to mass standards. Unless he can do this comfortably, sooner or later he is sunk."
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"I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism."
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"Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am."
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"The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out."
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"I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them."
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