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"There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too."
"The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked."
"When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine."
"I'm sure men have their own ways of trying to demean one another, but women can be very gossipy and judgmental, and that doesn't help."
"She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment."
"When you don't even get to try, you're like in a vacuum."
"I literally have no idea what's to come. I try to just stay in the moment."
"I do hear about these actors who go on vacations to Bali for three months, and their agents are banging their heads against a wall trying to find their clients - but that's not me. I'm working hard every day. Enjoy your vacation."
"You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again."
"A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability - if you try even a little bit - to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction."
"I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman. 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."... A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest."
"And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for."
"It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes."
"To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person."
"We learned that a product doesn't sell just because you're trying to do good in the world. You still have to have a healthy distribution, a good marketing strategy, and price the product properly."
"Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not."
"I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind."
"What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?"
"Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the river."
"I try to get control of the tempo, control of the flow, and get my teammates the ball in the best position to score."
