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“I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.”

Trying Long Hard Pages Long Time Poetic Satirical

Author:Paul Beatty

“I don't try to be sexy, but if you are sexy it comes out. If you're not, you're not.”

Ifs Trying Sexy

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.”

Knows Trying Stuff Simple Poet Surface Theme Literal

Author:Bo Burnham

“I don't try to change myself to impress anybody. I'm just who I am.”

Trying Basketball Who I Am Impress

Author:Tim Duncan

“I don't try to control my days.”

Trying

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.”

“I don't try to define the cosmos, I know it's unknowable, but I can understand my place in the world and my place in the universe through a mixture of Taoism, Catholicism, Zen or whatever I have at hand.”

Knows World Trying I Can Hands Universe Cosmos Taoism Catholicism Mixtures Places In The World

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.”

Trying Future Programming Describe Myself

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I don't try to do anything. I think the moment that I'm like, "Oh, I have to be this way or that way" is the moment that I become sad, or maybe an asshole. So I just try to be myself and put out what is most natural. But I think I am - I mean, I've seen a lot, been through a lot. But something remains sort of naïve within me. And I just try to nurture that.”

Thinking Trying Mean Moments Natural Nurture

Author:Jenny Slate

“I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.”

Trying I Can Hard Focus Hard Work

Author:Tim Tebow

“I don't try to force-feed it or put any things on the images until I'm making a painting. It's not photorealism. Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer. I don't want to go blind doing what a printer can do.”

Trying Goal Nice Painting Blind Photograph Really Nice Printer

Author:Damian Loeb

“I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.”

“I don't try to go to the studio and make a single. I just do whatever I feel.”

Feels Trying Studios

Author:Rakim

“I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.”

People Knows Trying Hard Enough Inspiring Millions Filmmaker Movie

Author:John Huston

“I don't try to hide our relationship with Jay-Z. There's nothing to hide. People see us, but we just don't talk about it, and I think that's absolutely helped us. People give us space and respect us. The minute you start talking about it, that's all people want to talk about. And then the really big rumors start happening.”

People Thinking Giving Trying Our Relationship Rumor

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“I don't try to hide sex in my music. Music is very sexual. I don't hide it.”

Trying Sex Music Is

Author:Rick James

“I don't try to hit the ball 500 feet. It looks good when you hit it 500 feet, but as long as it goes over the fence, it's a home run. When you swing hard, it takes a little bit of recognition away from you. The power you're trying to increase - you're not all the way through it with your vision.”

Way Trying Looks Littles Long Hard Home Running Bits Vision Feet Little Bit Balls Increase Recognition Swings Fence Away From You Home Run

Author:David Ortiz

“I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”

World Inspirational Trying Spiritual Imagine Atheism Appreciate Structure Atheist Senses Awe Inadequate

Author:Albert Einstein

“I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.”

Thinking Trying Character Audience Too Much Likeable

Author:Paula Patton

“I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.”

People Trying Fighting Sports Nonsense Mma Hitting Life And Love Intimidating

Author:Mike Tyson

“I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.”

Trying Singers Entertainers

Author:B. B. King

“I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.”

Feels Trying Kind Sometimes Like You Sympathetic

Author:Charlize Theron

“I don't try to knock 'em out, I just know I will”

Knows Trying Ems

Author:Chuck Liddell

“I don't try to knock people out, but I have the ability to press him and get the cheese.”

People Trying Motivation Ability Presses Fighter Cheese

Author:Adrien Broner

“I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.”

Thinking Trying Character Inevitable Live Life

Author:Toni Collette

“I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.”

Trying Two Sound Musician

Author:Les Baxter

“I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers. Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.”

People Trying Firsts Littles Made Film Cinema Filmmaker Pointe

Author:Agnes Varda

“I don't try to make anybody outside happy.”

Trying

Author:Amanda Palmer

“I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.”

People Thinking Trying Past Used Sports Drink Wine Used To Be Insomnia

Author:Mario Lemieux

“I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them...It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks.”

People Ifs Trying Looks Ideas Facts Seems Enjoy Concepts I've Learned Execution Corny

Author:Annie Leibovitz

“I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.”

Trying Play Please Cures

Author:Ornette Coleman

“I don't try to pretend to be what I'm not. I don't feel I need to do anything outrageous.”

Needs Feels Trying Outrageous

Author:Pixie Lott

“I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.”

Trying Persons Projects

Author:Tracy Chapman

“I don't try to rap about or emulate the life of another person.”

Trying Persons Rap Emulate

Author:Lazarus of Bethany

“I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.”

Ifs Trying Sound Elements Songwriting

Author:Norah Jones

“I don't try to stop myself from becoming too personal. I just put it all out there. If anything, I try to remind myself to be as honest as possible all the time. Why hold back?”

Trying Honest

Author:Teddy Thompson

“I don't try to take a person out of our world and put them into my world; that wouldn't work. It's sort of like bad Photoshop: If you see something Photoshopped together - and even if it's done pretty well - the eye catches on it. That happens a lot when people try to cut and paste people from our world into their fourteenth-century historical romance novel.”

People Ifs World Trying Wells Persons Done Happens Eye Together Romance Novel Cutting Century Historical Working It Our World Romance Novel Photoshop

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.”

Trying Mean Dancer

Author:Martha Graham

“I don't try to think about how I can satisfy those who would criticize me, or plot and plan to work in ways that will not get criticism. I tend to follow what I really believe. If I believe in something strongly and I act on it, then whatever comes with that territory comes.”

Thinking Trying Believe I Believe Criticism Criticize

Author:Maxine Waters

“I don't turn Britney Spears into a star. I have to spot that these people are going to be stars, in the future, and say, "Okay, these guys have cultural validity and they're going to pop."”

People Guy Turns Stars Okay Pops Spots Validity Spears

Author:Joseph M. Kahn

“I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.”

Ifs Turns Office Boxes Noses Box Office

Author:Laura Dern

“I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. It's not like, "I don't make studio films; I work for David Lynch and maybe a few American Playhouse directors, but that's it" - I'd love to do a box-office hit.”

Film

Author:Laura Dern

“I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want.”

Want Turns Advice

Author:Azealia Banks

“I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.”

Turns Culture Advice Fine Reflection Cards Greetings Greeting Card

Author:Susan Orlean

“I don't Tweet a lot because I've Tweeted things that I thought were really innocuous about subjects that are inflammatory, and the response is so insane sometimes from people.”

People Sometimes Subjects Response Insane Tweet

Author:Lewis Black

“I don't tweet very much. I still believe in the mystery of an artist. I believe in going out when I'm ready to sell my product. A lot of artists are out there every day. But I remember the Julio Iglesiases, the Jose Joses - and it was about the music.”

Believe Stills Remember Artist I Believe Mystery Ready Products Sells I Believe In Going Out Tweet I Still Believe

Author:Romeo Santos

“I don't tweet, I don't go on Facebook. I think there's too much information about all of us out there. I'm liking the idea of privacy more and more.”

Thinking Ideas Too Much Information Goes On Privacy Tweet Too Much Information

Author:George Clooney

“I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home - that's the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like everyone else around me, I would lose my mind.”

Ifs Mind Looks Kind Book Home Loses Lines Land Phones Email Tweet

Author:Patti LaBelle

“I don't Twitter every day. I just think we should be more thoughtful with what we share. I don't care that you're turning a light on right now. That's great and all, but there's got to be a balance there.”

Thinking Should Light Care Share Balance Right Now Don't Care I Don't Care Thoughtful

Author:Jeremy Camp

“I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.”

Thinking Should Sometimes

Author:Parker Posey

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