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“Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject.”

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Author:Tim Walker

“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.”

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Author:Vera Wang

“Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.”

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Author:Walter Jon Williams

“It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.”

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Author:William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

“I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.”

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Author:Dwight Yoakam

“Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.”

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Author:Dwight Yoakam

“Skating was something I really wanted to do; my parents knew nothing about it. They said they'd support me as long as I was trying my hardest and enjoying it.”

Trying Long Said Wanted Parent Enjoy Support Hardest They Said Skating Support Me Trying My Hardest

Author:Kristi Yamaguchi

“So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.”

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Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.”

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Author:Trisha Yearwood

“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.”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“There are times when I want to be plainspoken about my feelings in a song. But there are other times when it's really good to try and get my head around different kinds of song structures, or maybe I might get turned on by trying to write a song that would fit in this one scene in a movie. And by the end of all this, you just end up with a bunch of different ideas. And songs are really just ideas.”

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Author:Ryan Adams

“Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's hard for me to focus that way, because I always think it's more interesting to just see what will happen next.”

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Author:Ryan Adams

“The hardest thing about being an actor, and especially when you're a woman trying to also have a family and a relationship, is to maintain some sort of normalcy. With television, you might not be home a lot, but you have a routine.”

Trying Home Might Actors Television Hardest Routine Hardest Thing Normalcy

Author:Julianna Margulies

“I don't have any jokes about my divorce or my ex-husband, who is a lovely person. It really is about how I was an idiot trying to push this guy to get married when I wasn't even sure if I wanted to.”

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Author:Jen Kirkman

“I was trying to be appreciative for the education I had, for the sacrifices my parents made. I was very interested in perfect attendance, OK, and straight A's and, you know, dean's list, because those I think were worthwhile, you know, endeavors. And it was important to spend my time in that way and become well-rounded.”

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Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“You should try to get fired once in a while. It's good for you.”

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Author:Greg Gutfeld

“I do like moving my legs a lot, like maybe moon walk-y things. I don't have like one move, because I try as much as I can. But I just love imitating impossible things that dancers do.”

Trying I Can Moving Walks Impossible Moon Legs Dancer Imitating Impossible Things

Author:Lucas Till

“U.S. has been trying to encourage Iraq to pass a law that would provide money and training and weapons for a Sunni national guard that could be effective in places like Ramadi, like Mosul”

Trying Has Beens Law Weapons Training Iraq National Guard

Author:David Ignatius

“The reason statins are so helpful is that even those who are trying their best to reach their target and still can't do it have something else to rely on.”

Trying Stills Reason Rely Helpful Target

Author:Antonio Gotto

“I have been accused of something I'm not guilty of. How do you prove a negative? No matter what we discuss here today, I'm never going to have my name restored. But I've got to try and set the record straight.”

Trying Has Beens Matter Today Names Records Prove Negative No Matter What Guilty Accused Not Guilty

Author:Jim Lehrer

“I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.”

Trying Ideas Ends Happenings Leaving Me Me Alone Leave Me Alone Just Leave Me Alone

Author:J. J. Abrams

“As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.”

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Author:Thomas Frank

“I gotta get working, you know? I've been too busy. I've been trying my hardest, but it's really tough.”

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Author:Christy Carlson Romano

“... 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.”

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Author:Sandra Bernhard

“Anything you do sustainably feels so good that you're a full-on addict as soon as you try it. If you eat only vegetables and fruits that you grow yourself from your garden, or organic food, it tastes so much better and is so much better for you, you can't really go back.”

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Author:Daryl Hannah

“The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.”

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Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.”

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Author:Ted Danson

“The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.”

Trying Artist Culture Term Christianity Effects Poet Creating Avant Garde Creating Something

Book:Art and Culture: Critical Essays

Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays

“It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Perfect mind, the diamond mind, radiating all universes through your being, each pulse beat is the universe, each breath, eternity. Enlightenment, try it. You'll like it!”

Inspirational Trying Mind Universe Perfect Buddhism Beats Enlightenment Eternity Breaths Diamond Pulse

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.”

Inspirational Trying Pain Life Is Grows Growing Up Buddhism Sells Life Is Pain

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of mind.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to meditate, practice and don't get frustrated. It will take you years to learn to meditate perfectly. Every time you try, you are growing. It's not as if you have to meditate perfectly to make progress.”

Ifs Trying Years Practice Meditation Growing Progress Buddhism Frustrated

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It is a world of fullness, if anything.”

Ifs World Way Trying Meditation Impossible Buddhism Emptiness Fullness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Try to be still inside. Learn to quiet and stop thought, and you will be able to develop your mind. Your psychic intuition will start to come about.”

Trying Mind Stills Able Meditation Buddhism Quiet Intuition Psychics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you won't have any fun with it.”

Way Trying Fun Meditation Buddhism Essentials

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't try to be someone. Be yourself. This is what mediation should teach you.”

Should Trying Teach Meditation Buddhism Being Yourself Mediation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Try to find a teacher of meditation and meditate at least once a week in a group with people who meditate a little better than you do. It will inspire you to keep meditating.”

People Trying Littles Teacher Meditation Groups Week Inspire Buddhism Better Than You Meditating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Try and stop your thoughts. Be patient and then the kundalini will flow through you and bring about substantial changes in your awareness.”

Trying Awareness Buddhism Flow Patient Be Patient

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sri Krishna is said to be an avatar, which is a human way of trying to define very big. That is to say that Sri Krishna is not from the local area network, but he has come from a world that is different because his mind is different.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“One path leads back to this world, to rebirth; one path leads beyond. Your soul stands at a crossword, trying to make a decision, flipping a coin, a nice image for the soul, I think.”

Thinking World Trying Soul Decision Path Nice This World Your Soul Hinduism Coins Rebirth Crosswords Flipping A Coin

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.”

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Author:August Strindberg

“There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work.”

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Author:Sarah Waters

“We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.”

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Author:Garrison Keillor

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