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"At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion."
"I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong."
"Where there is a will there is a way. Have faith in oneself and productivity will follow. nothing can stop you once you realize what it is you are trying to do. there will always be a way, given the right amount of time one can do anything. Never hesitate to do what it takes."
"All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy."
"English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be."
"I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure."
"I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history."
"We all have a wrong idea of ourselves. I am always changing, and I will continue to change. So, I never try to describe, define or judge myself."
"If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake."
"God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless."
"God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them."
"Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe."
"The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it"
"I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much."
"We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water."
"Why don’t you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything"
"I am not trying to be better than my father. I am not trying to be like him. I am just trying to be myself and express myself how I feel."
"I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression."
"I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live."
"Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!"
