"I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting."
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"I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action."
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"Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place."
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"The reality is that fulfillment, success and all of these good things comes from trying to help those that we care about to achieve those things. How can I help somebody I care about find the job they love? How can I help somebody I care about find happiness in their work? And when we commit to service it actually biologically and anthropologically is more likely to lead to our own success and our own happiness."
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"I like everyone who tries to show that madness is, in large part, conditioned by society and particularly by the family, and therefore, strongly affects women."
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"I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre."
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"Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance."
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"In my weightlifting I am trying to show that if you pray and meditate, you can bring to the fore your inner strength. Now, if somebody is really inwardly strong, he is always at peace."
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"Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: I shall try again and again, and I am bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but I have to defy the obstacles."
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"Instead of creating a reason why you cannot love the world, try to create a reason why you should and must love the world."
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"The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them."
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"As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole-the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives - you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations."
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"I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose."
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"I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud."
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"Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it."
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"If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all."
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"Those who don't try never look foolish."
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"We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That's what's driven me."
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"I try not to think about legacy because it is all folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten."
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"We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction."
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