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"I want an actor to try to give me what I ask in the best and most exact way possible. He mustn't try to find out more, because then there's the danger that he'll become his own director."
"I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it."
"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."
"However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word."
"I try to be as intentional as possible."
"I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential."
"Finally I started really opening up as a songwriter and an interpreter and taking songs from all kind of genres and stripping them down to just lyrics and the story inside the lyrics, and trying to make them really mine."
"What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think."
"I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it."
"I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman,' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else."
"I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment."
"No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge."
"Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient."
"I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny."
"The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--"
"Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it."
"Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being. The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that; realize the negative side and try to reduce. That's the way."
"Try to improve. Don't expect too much, but don't feel discouraged either; keep up your enthusiasm; you will make progress."
"Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead."
"The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need not try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not."
