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“I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.”

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Author:David Morrissey

“If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.”

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Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.”

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Author:Ezra Miller

“What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.”

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Author:Jack McBrayer

“What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.”

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Author:James Murdoch

“I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!”

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Author:Jayma Mays

“The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.”

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Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.”

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Author:Joe Manganiello

“It's tricky when I'm constantly traveling and adjusting to new time zones and trying to also keep up with my workouts.”

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Author:Joe Manganiello

“The Heisman attention has definitely been a little bit of a surprise. It's been out of my hands. It's something I'm not focused on. I'm focused on the season and trying to win as many games as possible.”

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Author:Johnny Manziel

“If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you.”

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Author:Joseph Morgan

“I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I'm aware of the landscape. I'm a competitor, so I have to know whom I'm competing with.”

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Author:Leslie Moonves

“People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.”

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Author:Matt Mullenweg

“I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.”

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Author:Matt Mullenweg

“One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.”

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Author:Matt Mullenweg

“I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.”

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Author:Peter Mullan

“I always try to make things fun.”

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Author:Poppy Montgomery

“I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself.”

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Author:Poppy Montgomery

“I never know why shows succeed or don't succeed, which is why I look at it as, 'I'll do the best work that I can', and if the fans and people respond then I'm always really flattered and honored, and if they don't then I'll try and do something next time that they like better. But I have no idea what makes a hit show, I really don't.”

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Author:Poppy Montgomery

“One time I semi-wrecked my uncle's truck. He told me to back it up into a ditch, but my foot slipped and I gunned it a little too much. But now I use one foot, and I do not run into stuff - at least I try not to.”

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Author:RJ Mitte

“Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.”

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Author:Roger Michell

“I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.”

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Author:Scoot McNairy

“I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.”

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Author:Yuri Milner

“I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.”

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Author:Yuri Milner

“I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.”

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Author:A. J. McLean

“I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.”

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Author:Aimee Mann

“I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition, I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.”

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Author:Alfred Molina

“Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.”

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Author:Beverley Mitchell

“If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.”

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Author:Robert Metcalfe

“With a sequel you're always trying to get bigger and better.”

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Author:Breckin Meyer

“The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.”

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Author:Carey Mulligan

“I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.”

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Author:China Mieville

“In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.”

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Author:China Mieville

“I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, and I try to study them so that I don't do that. It seems like they lost focus at some point - that's the one thing they all have in common.”

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Author:Cory Monteith

“Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.”

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Author:Dale Murphy

“For me, its like go ahead and eat. Live your life. I mean, I've just seen so much death, you know, as of late, being in my 40s, of people getting sick or, you know, whatever, that I just feel like, you know what? You never know with life. Eat. Enjoy yourself. Just try to be healthy and, you know, and watch it.”

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Author:Debi Mazar

“Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.”

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Author:Denise Mina

“I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.”

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Author:Don McLean

“Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.”

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Author:Eric McCormack

“But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.”

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Author:Frank Miller

“I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.”

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Author:Gary McCord

“It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.”

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Author:Gavin MacLeod

“When you're managing an emergency department, you're trying to keep everybody calm, so when an emergency comes in the door, everyone can do their best work.”

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Author:Glen Mazzara

“The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.”

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Author:Ian MacKaye

“I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.”

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Author:James McBride

“All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way.”

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Author:St. Vincent

“Generally my day-to-day is pretty much the same. Just busy and working and on tour. And trying to put on the best show possible every night.”

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Author:St. Vincent

“I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.”

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Author:St. Vincent

“I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.”

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Author:Steve Vai

“I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.”

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Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

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