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“Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.”

Trying Talking Compromise Listeners Not Talking

Author:Leo Ornstein

“Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.”

Trying Today Language Involved Composer Aesthetics

Author:Leo Ornstein

“One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Hard Enough Life Is Work Out

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.”

Thinking Trying Remember Mother Found Sick Journal

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I really enjoy making sure the kids get a healthy dinner, a good bath and several books... I really like to try and end the day with some quality time with my kids. If not, I feel guilty.”

Ifs Feels Trying Book Ends Kids Enjoy Quality Healthy Dinner Guilty Baths Quality Time

Author:Norah O'Donnell

“I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!”

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Book:Oliphant's Anthem

Source: Oliphant's Anthem

“I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.”

Knows Trying Know How Weakness Cooks Decent Serving

Author:Patrice O'Neal

“My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.”

Trying Sports Football Dad Madness Method Golf My Dad Tennis Cricket Snooker

Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan

“I do not like onions. It's so funny because I am probably one of the least picky eaters ever. Pretty much any type of new food, I'll try it, I'll eat it. But onions, and pork. Pork and onions.”

Trying Type Onions Pork Picky

Author:Stacie Orrico

“I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.”

Trying Stills Process Animal Written

Author:Tea Obreht

“I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.”

Thinking Trying Play Character Emotion Focus Shame Relate Frustration Load Soup Helplessness Unfamiliar Psycho Unfairness

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“It's great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn't start off so great it's not that big a deal: everybody's baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going? What's the story we're trying to tell?”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Stories Bigs Opportunity Given Born Deals Baby Ugly Pilots

Author:Timothy Olyphant

“It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream.”

Trying Feelings Dream Bigs Kids Able Opportunity Achieve Lucky League Good Feeling

Author:Tony Oliva

“Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.”

People Knows Trying Too Much Listening Grew Grew Up Roots Punk Emphasis

Author:Will Oldham

“Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.”

Trying Happens Embrace Stereotype

Author:Danny Pudi

“When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.”

Trying Firsts Body Running Morning Minutes Figures Happenings

Author:Danny Pudi

“My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.”

Trying Folks Jersey Lots Of Friends

Author:Kal Penn

“I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.”

Thinking Knows Way Writing Trying Seems Pieces Influence Particular Degrees Determine Admire Input Counterproductive

Author:Kevin Powers

“A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.”

People Knows Trying Years Wells Character Feelings Might Journalist Listeners Good Writers

Author:Louise Penny

“When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.”

Thinking Writing Trying Sometimes Character Song Term Creating Theme Visuals Transfers Soundtracks Creating Characters

Author:Marisha Pessl

“Lend sat up,craning his neck to see down my shirt,which I hurriedly pushed back into place. Last time I checked, you couldn't see souls.He shrugged,an exaggerated look of innocence on his face. Still,it wouldn't hurt for me to try,would it?You have got to be the most sefless boyfriend alive.Like I said,anything worthwhile is worth making sacrifices for.Speaking of which,weren't you going to give me a tongue demonstration?”

Giving Trying Looks Said Stills Soul Lasts Faces Hurt Alive Sacrifice Give Me Tongue Innocence Shirts Sat Necks Worthwhile Last Time Demonstration Exaggerated Making Sacrifices

Author:Kiersten White

“I try to learn from every experience, good or bad.”

Trying Football American Football

Author:Tim Tebow

“I'm crazy for trying, crazy for crying, and I'm crazy for loving you.”

Trying Crazy Cry Insanity Loving You

Author:Willie Nelson

“Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.”

Trying Balls Insanity Hacks Butchers Maniacs

Author:Alice Cooper

“I've been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. All around, trying to get the feeling again. The one that makes me shiver, made my knees start to quiver.”

Trying Made Feelings Knees Shiver Quiver Misinterpretation

Author:Barry Manilow

“Don't try to change or tear your brother down, let him make his mistakes and he will come around.”

Trying Mistake Education Tears Brother Your Brother

Author:Donna Summer

“I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.”

Trying Looks Education Cases Teacher Sitting Intelligent Classroom

Author:Elton John

“They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.”

Want Trying Littles Education College Gains Score Little Knowledge Off To College

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature".”

Trying Mind Humans Feelings Law Religion Universe Religious Consciousness Harmony Human Mind Laws Of Nature Insufficiency

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.”

Ifs Men Trying Stills Self God Names Arms Lays Endless Command Deception Grain Self Deception

Author:Carl Jung

“All can hear that still small voice within. Try it. Be still and know that the I AM within you is God, the Beloved. Listen... then live by it.”

Knows Trying Stills God Voice Beloved Live By Within You Small Voice

Book:God Spoke to Me

Source: God Spoke to Me

“I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Persons Character Worry Let Me Agents Description

Author:Vanessa Lengies

“But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.”

Ifs Want Trying Done Asks Prove Want Me

Author:Abbey Lincoln

“I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.”

Thinking Way Trying Body Three Language Player Tools My Way Way Of Thinking Body Language

Author:Alan Lewis

“Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days.”

Trying Easy Responsibility Tasks Good Day Bad Day Parental Juggling Easy Tasks

Author:Ali Landry

“I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.”

Trying Believe Long Whole Blood Approach Glory Whole Life Guts

Author:Ali Larter

“I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.”

Needs Trying Feminist Approval Love Myself I Love Myself

Author:Amy Lee

“I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems.”

Trying Stills Problem Happens Messages Get Better Things Are Getting Better

Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.”

Trying I Can Choices Actors Careers Instinct Guts Comparison Careers Choices

Author:Brandon Lee

“It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can't. A 'Highlander' movie is basically my thing. What I'm attempting to do is develop my ability as an actor and try to be the best I can be in the fantasy/action genre.”

Knows Trying May I Can Action Actors Can Do Ability Mistake Fantasy Limitation Genre Being The Best Can Not Attempting De Niro Highlander

Author:Christopher Lambert

“I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer.”

Trying Guy Rooms Add Drummer

Author:Dave Lombardo

“I try not to be overly analytical.”

Trying

Author:Diane Lane

“You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.”

Trying Turns Tree Dog Cat Apples Lemons Apple Trees

Author:Diane Lane

“To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.”

Trying Firsts Real Jobs Past Stars Support Directors Producers Outlines Whatever It Takes

Author:Dino De Laurentiis

“I've always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I'm trying to get across is, it doesn't have to take three days to do this. With planning, you can do a lot and really have quality food every day.”

Trying Done Three Can Do Quality Messages Planning

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“You are going to be what you put in your body, so I try to teach that to my kids, and the kids around me.”

Trying Body Kids Teach Your Body

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“I'm new to the Twitterverse and so I'm attempting to build my followers. I'm trying to be a better tweeter. I try not to tweet too much, just when I've got something worthwhile to say.”

Trying Too Much Followers Worthwhile Attempting Tweet

Author:Eric Ladin

“I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.”

Trying Actors Watches

Author:Frank Langella

“Europe is trying to get its fiscal house in order.”

Trying Order House Europe

Author:Jacob Lew

“When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.”

World Trying Firsts War Bigs Next Events Materials England Historical Musical Strikes War Of The Worlds Documentaries First World War Historical Events

Author:Trevor Nunn

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