“There was a whole cut of the movie where Tom Holland decided to try a woman's voice for the voice of Chucky, proceeding from the logic that it worked with Mercedes McCambridge voicing the voice of Satan in "The Excorsist" so he thought he would give it a try. It didn't really work. Chucky just sounded kind of gay.We brought that back in Seed of Chucky.” GivingTryingKindWholeVoiceCuttingGayDecidedLogicSeedsSatanTomsProceedingHolland Author:David Kirschner
“It's okay for someone to chase me and then try to cut me off so I ram my car into a tree . . . I mean, I know this guy was trying to do his job, but his "job" almost landed me half-dead.” KnowsTryingMeanJobsGuyHalfCuttingTreeCarOkayThis GuyRams Author:Lindsay Lohan
“I always say, I'm a woman, I can't change my sex. I can't get angry about it. I'm too busy desperately trying to get my movies made. It's hard work. There are no short cuts. If there were, I would have found them by now.” IfsTryingMadeI CanHardFoundSexCuttingHard WorkAngryBusyMade ItToo BusyCan't ChangeShort Cuts Author:Ruba Nadda
“If you don't try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don't ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to bear a slightly larger burden of the privilege of being an American, then you have to - the only way to achieve fiscal sustainability is through unacceptably deep cuts in benefits for middle class seniors, or unacceptably deep cuts in national security.” IfsKnowsWayTryingAsksClassCuttingMiddleAchieveSecurityBearsTaxesBenefitsPrivilegeBurdenReformFortunateMiddle ClassSustainabilitySeniorNational SecurityRevenueTax Reform Author:Timothy Geithner
“Sometimes I feel like there isn't enough Prozac in the world to make Environmental Protection Agency people feel better about their jobs. They're going out there, they're trying to protect Americans and then time and time and time again they get their knees cut off at the policy level.” PeopleWorldFeelsTryingSometimesEnoughJobsLevelsCuttingPolicyProtectEnvironmentalProtectionKneesAgencyFeel BetterGoing OutEnvironmental ProtectionProzac Author:Josh Fox
“Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don't make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author's mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, 'Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?'. Monet would be ripping his hair out.” PeopleIfsTryingMindMeanSaidBookSoulSeemsWould BeArtistLiteratureLostLeftBitsSpaceCreativeToo MuchCuttingStupidHairIntentionVersionsMake SenseClassicEditorsGlimpseCropsPointlessLiliesPadsEditedClassic LiteratureMonetLily Pads Author:E. A. Bucchianeri
“When your way doesn't work, don't be disheartened. You must be willing to try another way. A closed door doesn't mean you have been cut off permanently. It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used.” WayTryingMeanHas BeensUsedChallengesCuttingDoorsWillingToolsObstaclesEncouragingAnother WayClosed DoorsDisheartenedWilling To Try Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“I actually loved to dress like a boy, and I still kind of do and try to sneak boy's pieces into my wardrobe. I have Levi's boot cut jeans that actually might be from the boy's department, but I love them. Those jeans and flannel are my favorites. If I could choose anything to wear for the rest of my life, I'd just want a boy's outfit.” IfsWantTryingKindStillsMightBoysPiecesCuttingDressesIf I CouldDepartmentBootsJeansWardrobeSneakLike A BoyFlannelsLevi's Author:Analeigh Tipton
“I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. ... This notion that somehow we caused the deficits is just wrong. It's just not true. ... If they start trying to give you a bunch of facts and figures suggesting that it's true, what they're not telling you is they baked all this stuff into the cake with those tax cuts and a prescription drug plan that they didn't pay for and the wars.” IfsGivingTryingWarFactsGuyStuffPayCuttingPlansFiguresListeningDrugTaxesDollarsNotionDebtBunchCakeDeficitLecturesPrescriptionsSuggestingTax CutsPrescription Drugs Author:Barack Obama
“I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit hard-edged, isn't it?' And I'd say, 'Let's just try it and see how the audience reacts. If they don't like it, let's cut it out.' And the audience roared with laughter, so I learned you could do this harder humor and people loved it.” PeopleIfsTryingLittlesHardBitsAudienceCuttingLittle BitLaughterJokesHarderProducersAnxious Author:John Cleese
“You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescense, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.” PeopleIfsWayTryingYearsFirstsImportantHelpingAgeSexRealizingLosesCuttingMiddleBalanceIllusionDiscoveryTwentiesMaturityKnockingShort Cuts Author:Kingsley Amis
“It's like you might have some great scene that you love but for some reason - and you can't necessarily put your finger on it - the movie's not working or it seems slow or ponderous in some way, and even though it has your favorite scene in there, actually the favorite scene is the culprit. That's the painful thing about editing, is trying to locate those things that are holding the movie back and then having the guts to cut them. And it is painful to do it.” WayTryingReasonSeemsMightCuttingLike YouSceneFingersPainfulGutsEditingYour FavoriteCulpritPainful Things Author:Neil Burger
“Black coffee is the latest fad I have picked up. Then there are my endless cups of chai! I'm trying to cut down and keep it to no more than three cups a day.” TryingThreeBlackCuttingDown AndCoffeeEndlessCupsFadsBlack CoffeeChai Author:Vidya Balan
“I'm aware of Yusef Lateef and Sun Ra and John Coltrane. My music cup runneth over. I try to encourage people: don't cut anything off, don't limit yourself. Give it a good listen: you might find something in that goofy Sun Ra noise, that dissonance. Before I learned 'official musicality' - which you should avoid at all costs - I listened to some Sun Ra and Yusef Lateef and John Coltrane and that's where 'Journey to the Center of the Mind' came from. When you intentionally and aggressively pursue musical communication with those powerfully impactful musical geniuses, you will pick up something.” PeopleGivingShouldTryingMindMightSunCuttingJourneyCommunicationGeniusCostLimitsPicksMusicalNoisePursueCupsOfficialsGoofyDissonanceColtraneMusicalityMusical Genius Author:Ted Nugent
“To me, the big difference is when you yell cut and then you have to walk over there and deliver a note, it gives it much more import as opposed to "Hey, try that." It's just much more intimate, I think.” ThinkingGivingTryingBigsDifferencesWalksCuttingNotesHeyIntimateImports Author:Will Gluck
“Trying to cut the deficit too far, too fast isn't working. The government must adopt a steadier, more balanced plan to get our deficit down and take immediate action now to support the economy and create jobs here in Britain.” TryingGovernmentActionJobsSupportEconomyCuttingPlansDown AndBritainBalancedDeficitImmediate Action Author:Ed Balls
“I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the things to keep it smooth going!” TryingFacesCuttingDressesSmooth Author:J. B. Smoove
“I always try to create equal power between the subject and the object, so as not to end up creating a relationship where the camera is here and the object out there. This is for me a very difficult and sensitive balance. When I produce a work, cut and frame images, I realize that spectators can identify with the images and almost forget that someone else actually made them. This would be the optimal situation. I don't know whether I succeed in doing so, but that's what I would like to have happen.” KnowsTryingMadeEndsHappensWould BeDifficultRealizingForgetSituationCuttingSubjectsObjectsProduceBalanceSucceedEqualCreatingCamerasSensitiveSpectatorsOptimalEqual Power Author:Pipilotti Rist
“If we try to hold on to our partial glimpses of the divine, we cut it down to our own size and close our minds. Like it or nor, our human experience of anything or anybody is always incomplete: there is usually something that eludes us, some portion of experience that evades our grasp.” IfsTryingMindHumansCuttingDivineSizePortionsGlimpseHuman ExperienceIncompleteEludeElude Us Book:The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness Source: The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
“Perseverance. I got cut twice. I got cut in Charlotte. I didn't have to go to Atlanta to audition. I could have said, "I'm not cut out for this." But I said, "I think I'm better than that, I can go try again." So I went to Atlanta and I made it through. Then I got cut the first time around. I could have told them I didn't want to come back for the Wild Card show but I did and look how far I got.” ThinkingWantTryingFirstsLooksMadeSaidI CanShowsCuttingFirst TimePerseveranceCardsMade ItAuditionsTry AgainAtlantaCharlotte Author:Clay Aiken
“My parents were in the studio when we cut 'Let Me Try' and every time I sang it they started crying, ... I finally had to ask them to leave because I couldn't sing it while they were crying.” TryingAsksParentCuttingCryLet MeStudios Author:Hope Partlow
“Suppose I try to say the US carries out terror, in fact it's one of the leading terrorist states in the world. You can't say that between commercials. People rightly want to know what do you mean. They've never heard that before. Then you have to explain. You have to give background. That's exactly what's cut out.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantGivingTryingMeanStatesFactsCuttingHeardTerrorTerroristBackgroundsCarrieGiving Back Author:Noam Chomsky
“The South Vietnamese were perhaps a little bit slow in doing things, they jump on, on the problem and they try to do themselves everything. Or, they try to have some short cuts with the, those people they were dealing with.” PeopleTryingLittlesProblemBitsCuttingLittle BitSouthVietnameseShort Cuts Author:Bui Diem
“After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in 1933, this was seen as such an emergency that human rights had to be suspended. The attack on the World Trade Towers has allowed Bush and his gang to do anything. What are we to do now? I say when there's a code red, we should all run around like chickens with our heads cut off. I don't feel that we are in any great danger.” WorldFeelsShouldTryingFirstsHumansWarRunningDemocracyCuttingRightsDangerRedTradeHuman RightsCodeWar Of The WorldsGermanyChickensBurnedTowersEmergenciesGangLegislatureSuspendedWorld TradeFirst World War Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I think that the best approach would be if the American people ever insist that we cut down on the massive amounts of money that moves into the campaigns from special interest groups, and if we resist publicly by saying "No more negative advertisements that destroy the reputations of one's opponents." In the meantime, just don't pay any attention to negative ads, if you can avoid them, and try to focus on the issues.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingWould BeMovingInterestPayAttentionIssuesFocusCuttingGroupsSpecialAmountApproachNegativeCampaignsReputationOpponentsMassiveAdsSaying NoAdvertisementsSpecial InterestsInterest GroupsSpecial Interest Groups Author:Jimmy Carter
“Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.” ThinkingTryingImportantSchoolChallengesSuccessfulCuttingMusicianBudgetsBeing SuccessfulArrestedNyc Author:Wyclef Jean
“In terms of screenwriting adaptations it's trying to cut out stuff that's extraneous, without doing damage to the original piece, because you owe a debt of some respect to the original author. That's why it was bought.” TryingStuffTermPiecesCuttingOriginalsDebtDamageAdaptationScreenwriting Author:Rod Serling
“I went through in the edits and cut tons of stuff that was "funny" because if it wasn't funny at the time, so it shouldn't be funny now. It's about having that unity of experience. You have to try and take away your hindsight knowledge of a situation.” IfsTryingStuffSituationCuttingUnityEditsHindsight Author:Damian Barr
“Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of the reason was that the groups that cared about wilderness didn't talk with the groups that were trying to stop freeways from cutting through inner cities, and neither of them talked to the folks who wanted to stop the military from dumping Agent Orange on Vietnam.” TryingReasonBigsWantedPoliticalCitiesIssuesCuttingGroupsMilitaryPoliticianConsequenceEnvironmentalFolksAgentsWildernessVietnamOrangeInner CityFreewaysEnvironmental IssuesGreat PoliticalAgent Orange Author:Denis Hayes
“I hid the homework, stayed in the bathroom for the longest time trying to cut class - I was a wreck as a kid.” TryingKidsClassCuttingBathroomWrecksHomework Author:Jordan Francis
“I remember the first day I was looking at my hands and I thought about my nails. People wouldn't really be paying attention to that, but a Civil War doctor - What would they be doing with their nails? Would they cut them really low? And Dr. Burns said, "No, they would let them grow out so they can scoop stuff out. They would use their nails." So for a while I let my nails grow. They were too long. I kept stabbing myself by accident, so I cut them down, but I was trying to be faithful to the details.” PeopleTryingFirstsLongSaidWarUseHandsRememberGrowsStuffAttentionCuttingLowsDoctorsDetailsAccidentsPay AttentionFaithfulCivil WarNailsDrsBeing FaithfulStabbing Author:Josh Radnor