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“How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Real Done Would Be Earth Sound Novel Laughing Real Life Locked Locked Up

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”

People Trying Faces Ability Forever Expression Broken Awkward Cracked Trust Others

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.”

People Want Trying Looks Ideas Sound Watches Laughing Events Tvs Sitting Tables Folks Currents Drawing Silly Shallow Cartoon Stimulus Sitting Down Current Events Deep Meaning

Author:Gary Larson

“Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many of them. That's why - you know that's why I started talking about it, so that they didn't hear just the terrible stories.”

People Knows Trying Years Stories America Faces Talking Gone Couple Terrible Right Now Dilemma Through The Years

Author:Joan Lunden

“We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people.”

People Trying Entertainers

Author:Matt Stone

“It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.”

People Writing Trying Children Book Hard Three Four Adults Accepted Exception

Author:R. L. Stine

“I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.”

People Want Trying Song Fun Having Fun

Author:Ricky Skaggs

“That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.”

People Trying Heart Kind Missions Statements Labels Great Music Mission Statement

Author:Ricky Skaggs

“At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.”

People Trying Stories Found Interesting Audience Groups News All Things Mtv

Author:Tabitha Soren

“But 'Hey Dude' was shot in Arizona, and that took me to the West Coast. We did 65 episodes. It was not a show that a ton of people saw, so it was like doing acting classes and getting paid for it. At that point I had the acting bug. So I went to L.A. to give it a try and never left.”

People Giving Trying Shows Left Acting Class Saws Shots Paid West Hey Episodes Coast Bugs Arizona West Coast Acting Classes

Author:Christine Taylor

“Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.”

People Writing Trying Christian Spiritual Song Levels Fans Deeper Contemporary Writing Songs Christian Music Contemporary Christian

Author:Ryan Tedder

“I'm just a young person trying to fulfil his potential and be the best he can be at what he wants to do... I guess that's why people connect with the music.”

People Want Trying Persons Young Being The Best

Author:Tinie Tempah

“So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying I Can Real Helping Bigs Girl Can Do Help Me I Can Do It Luggage

Author:Carrie Underwood

“I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.”

People Thinking Trying Eye

Author:Don Van Vliet

“What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.”

People Trying Real Done Stories Shows Beautiful Guy Be Good Real Life Bad Things Bad Guys Wire Things Done Good Guy True Life

Author:Tristan Wilds

“If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won't leave people saying, 'Gee, it could have been better, it could've been this, it could've been that.'”

People Ifs Want Trying Has Beens Lasts Chance Forever Could Have Been

Author:Billy West

“And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.”

People Ifs World Way Trying Heart Becoming My Heart Rounds Twists Keep Trying

Book:The diary of a young girl

Source: The diary of a young girl

“The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.”

People Feels Writing Trying Literature Newspapers Establishment Scottish

Author:Irvine Welsh

“If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.”

People Ifs Feels Trying Passion Winning Like You South London Always Trying Underdog

Author:Jessie Ware

“As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.”

People Trying Eye Mother Community Son News Disability

Author:Judy Woodruff

“People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful.”

People Want Trying Kind Problem Technology Addresses Helpful Remedy Scientology Personal Problems

Author:Lawrence Wright

“Sometimes when you get on a new movie you kind of how to figure out the way other people work and it can be like being the new kid in high school where you're just trying to find out where your place is on the movie or on the set.”

People Way Trying Kind Sometimes Kids School Figures High School

Author:Luke Wilson

“Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.”

People Trying Wells Different Moments Acting Projects Approach

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.”

People Trying Culture Realizing Challenges Nice Bigger Spheres Being Nice Trying To Change

Author:Mike White

“I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.”

People Want Trying Bigger

Author:Nik Wallenda

“I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.”

People Ifs Trying Sometimes Hate I Hate Phones Enormous Get Back Personal Business

Author:Vera Wang

“Some artists are definitely trying to do different styles. Some, not a lot. But even from what you've seen [of] Outkast, Kanye West, and Lil' Wayne, and different people expressing their way of evolving in hip-hop. In the evolution of hip-hop, they're doing different things. And you've seen hip-hop have more of a global presence and impact on the world.”

People World Way Trying Different Artist Style Evolution Impact West Hip Hop Hips Evolve Hops Different Things Different Peoples Wayne Different Styles Impact On The World Outkast

Author:Will Ferrell

“... coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so many interesting songwriters out there, and it's such a crazy business and so many people are trying to do it, and it's all right there in Nashville.”

People Trying Interesting Crazy Influence Songwriters Nashville

Author:Sandra Bernhard