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“I try not to read the Internet because it's mostly just a sea of hatred.”

“The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.”

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Author:John Katzman

“I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.”

Writing Trying Years Song

Author:Sondre Lerche

“I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.”

Writing Trying I Can Sometimes Hard Song Three Simple Down And Chords Messed Up

Author:Sondre Lerche

“It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.”

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Author:Victoria Legrand

“I try to give my kids everything I never had.”

Giving Trying Kids

Author:William Levy

“The women I love most are Latina - my sister, mother, and daughter. They're spontaneous but spend a majority of their time trying to make others happy.”

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Author:William Levy

“I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.”

Trying Feelings Feel Good Good Day

Author:Katie Ledecky

“When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.”

Trying Real Real Life

Author:Matthew Lawrence

“I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.”

Trying I Can Conflict

Author:Nadine Labaki

“I like clever songs. I like songs that make people think and I try to have substance in all my records, even with 'Sweet Dreams' how it was a club record and it was up tempo, but it was melodic and it was, like, lyrical.”

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Author:Rico Love

“Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution.”

Way Trying Cutting Directors Solutions Finals Producers France

Author:Thomas Langmann

“You will never see my sons in parties. We keep to ourselves and try to do whatever we have to do.”

Trying Party Son My Son

Author:Mian Muhammad Mansha

“I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.”

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Author:Cheryl Mendelson

“I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.”

People Trying Mind Stories Might Trouble

Author:Bruce Nash

“I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.”

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Author:Randy Owen

“One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.”

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Author:Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

“E.Biscom is an Internet company that is diversified, not a diversified company that is trying out the Internet.”

Trying Company Internet

Author:Silvio Scaglia

“Kids can't look up to girls who are trying to be growner than they are.”

Trying Looks Kids Girl Look Up

Author:Teyana

“If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.”

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Author:Yul Vazquez

“You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked.”

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Author:Jess Weixler

“I consistently run into young adults who have quickly turned away from traditional jobs at great companies to try their hand at a start-up. I believe that some of this stems from the desire to strike it big like Mark Zuckerberg, but I also believe it is because starting a company has become far cooler than working in one.”

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Author:Maynard Webb

“Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.”

Thinking Men Want Trying Jobs Turns Powerful Successful Danger Currents Formal New Job Formal Wear

Author:Peter York

“I don't apologize to people who try to intimidate.”

People Trying Apologizing Intimidating

Author:Kinky Friedman

“While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.”

People Trying Infinite Tunes Infinity

Author:Eric Butterworth

“It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.”

“For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.”

Trying Years Firsts Industry Fats Pharmaceutical Food Industry Pharmaceutical Industry

Author:Pierre Dukan

“I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.”

Trying Long Term Ability Careers Skills Long Term

Author:Martha Wainwright

“In my career the push has always been to take another step, to try something new.”

Trying Steps Careers Something New

Author:Bjorn Ulvaeus

“I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.”

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Author:Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

“I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.”

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Author:Alex Borstein

“Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.'”

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Author:Alex Borstein

“I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.”

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Author:Black Francis

“I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies.”

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Author:Black Francis

“I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.”

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Author:Gerry Beckley

“It's what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it's an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.”

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Author:Gerry Beckley

“My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.”

Want Feels Trying Lasts Film Next

Author:Robert Benton

“I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.”

Trying Littles Mother Father Grew Grew Up Died Busy Open Minded Father Died My Father Died

Author:Sonia Braga

“I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.”

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Author:Victoria Clark

“My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.”

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Author:John Henry Carver

“Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.”

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Author:Iris DeMent

“For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.”

People Way Feels Trying Long Helping Social Music Is Long Time Workers Social Worker

Author:Iris DeMent

“I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.”

Trying Actors

Author:Richard Donner

“At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.”

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Author:Stephen Daldry

“I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored.”

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Author:Stephen Daldry

“Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.”

People Trying Different Happens Innovation Different Things

Author:Edward Felten

“Reduce risk, lower your required capital, and focus on what you’re really good at—and hire others for what you are not.) This is something you should think about in any business: don’t try to do everything. You aren’t the best at everything. Find out where you have an advantage and stick to that.”

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Book:Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out

Source: Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out

“You have these relationships with people that you care about, but I also try to stick to my job as filmmaker and be fair and truthful about what I saw and my experience of the people, hopefully informed by a deep understanding of them.”

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Author:Lauren Greenfield

“I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Beautiful Song Dies Our Lives Imagine Scared Careful Beautiful Things

Author:Beth Gibbons

“You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.”

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Author:Beth Gibbons

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