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“I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or who are blacks trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods. This is a natural inclination... Government should not break up a neighborhood on a numerical basis. As soon as the Government does, the white folks flee.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today...”

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Author:John Lennon

“But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone.”

Trying Impossible Bed Dull

Book:The Good Life According to Hemingway

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.”

Trying Country Eye My Own

Author:Asne Seierstad

“As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.”

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Author:Carlton Cuse

“Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting”

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Author:Tavis Smiley

“My job is to try and bring attention to places that don't have it”

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Author:Judy Woodruff

“Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it's a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it's a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship.”

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Author:Francis Collins

“As for me, the only stuff I've ever had success with is when I'm trying to be completely original and not thinking about mirroring what else is out there.”

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Author:Ryan Tedder

“As an actor, I love being pushed. I love the feeling of, "Oh my god, I have to keep trying. What else is there to do?".”

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Author:Shiri Appleby

“Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start talking about how characters are talking to them, and it's crazy, she's never had that. And I also thought, I'm never gonna be able to do this, because I didn't feel that for a really long time.”

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Author:Sloane Crosley

“More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching her unhappiness as I grew up made me conclude that the answer was to try and be as unemotional as I could, which many therapists have taught me is a bad idea. It also made me want to avoid marriage and having children.”

“I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and gets an issue wrong.”

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Author:Rick Santorum

“When people are bothering you constantly when you're trying to do just a simple thing that humans do every day but they won't let you do it without bugging you about it, that was a hard thing. Because I became a movie star overnight. From a working actor and working writer to a movie star.”

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Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a dialect coach and work for six months trying to talk like a Frenchman. But there's some French actors. Just get one of them, you know.”

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Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We got plenty of actors. So we don't need some cat from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme, or whatever the hell it is, playing people from Montana. And in the reverse, they got plenty of people from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme that they don't need our asses coming over there trying to do British accents.”

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Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“First the movie, the actual playing of the role and trying to deliver what everybody wanted. Then, when the film came out, there was instant fame. I was just a kid from Sweden, I didn't know what was going on.”

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Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they're very, very funny people, but they don't really try to be. They're not cracking jokes.”

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Author:Emile Hirsch

“I'm 25 and just trying to understand women. Obviously, that is a process that never ends.”

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Author:Bryan Lee O'Malley

“I try to tell people to do, or advise them, anyway, is adopt conservative philosophies like hard work, preparation, perseverance, love of God, love of country, personal responsibility. Start to think for yourself and then go out and vote. And I think that once they start to do that, they will know where their vote should go.”

“It's always very important to me to try to create a story that feels unpredictable. You can't jump ahead and see what's coming, but at the end, when you've watched the whole thing, it all feels inevitable.”

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Author:Noah Hawley

“I always want to try to bring something fresh to every book. It's getting harder instead of easier. I feel like I work harder with each book. But I don't want it to show on the pages, that's for sure.”

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Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“I'm trying to separate myself from other people by having songs that would be considered - technically - original things. I don't seek out mashups. I'm associated with the whole mashup movement, and it's too bad because I'm not a huge fan of them.”

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Author:Girl Talk

“The music is in no way politically based - I'm not trying to make a point about sampling. It may bring up issues but I'm not trying to push it on anyone.”

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Author:Girl Talk

“Trying to find a human side to the character is a way to give them a chance to have people like them.”

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Author:Tom Ellis

“I answered an ad, for a campus cartoonist at the university I was in, my freshman year. I was like, Oh, I can draw, and I'm sort of a funny guy. I should try this. Then they paid me to do a comic strip for the paper.”

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Author:Dan Povenmire

“We just keep trying to beat every show with the funny stick until it's funny”

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Author:Dan Povenmire

“I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.”

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Author:Trent Reznor

“However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just mirror it all.”

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Author:David First

“We [Notekillers] aren't necessarily trying to be role models, but if we are, that's cool.”

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Author:David First

“I could easily fill up each week with going to see debuts of friends' compositions alone. When you add in all of the bands I'm interested in catching and all of the improvisers that I still love, it gets almost impossibly daunting. I try to do as much as I can.”

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Author:David First

“It is inspiring to see bands still trying to do significant and new things in the realm of sound. Most people in any category are more or less filling out the forms they've been handed. But there are always exceptional gems.”

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Author:David First

“I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.”

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Author:David Byrne

“I love live performance, but I am excited to try my hand at whatever comes my way.”

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Author:Michael Stahl-David

“Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.”

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Author:Matthew Weiner

“I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But again, whether it's digital or paper, it doesn't matter. It's words that somebody is reading and getting an experience out of that reading. That's all that really matters.”

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Author:Paul Auster

“In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.”

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Author:David Twohy

“Usually, when I act, I try to forget the words and let them come, and just find my way through them.”

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Author:David Duchovny

“There's not much you can do about the bias of the media other than try to counteract it by putting the truth out best you can, and the Internet has been a great weapon for holding the media accountable.”

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Author:Ron Paul

“I think it's more important to try and make a good film than give a good performance.”

Thinking Giving Trying Important Film Performances Good Films

Author:Paul Dano

“Sometimes people freak out when you shoot 40 takes of something. They start looking at you like, "What did I do wrong?", and its like "No. It's not wrong. It's just that we are going to try something different."”

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Author:David Fincher

“They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.”

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Author:Daryl Hannah

“I've been for 10 years trying to make something out of my life as an actor. I've learned a lot but I haven't done much that's worthwhile. So maybe if I make people wonder what I really do look like and make myself unrecognizable, they will be interested and intrigued, which eventually, of course, happened.”

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Author:Christopher Lee

“I don't think anybody's had the confidence that we'd ever be able to make a dent in homelessness. We've just come to accept that we manage homelessness, that we try to make it less bad, but we never make it better.”

Thinking Trying Able Accepting Manage Homelessness

Author:John Carlos Frey

“It seems other rap artists are trying to follow a "tradition", or something... I don't consider us [Migos] as weirdos, we just went the other way and didn't follow the rap tradition. We just killed it and made it our tradition.”

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Author:Quavo

“I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I'm not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I'm not on my phone so much. I'm intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds.”

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Author:Anderson Cooper

“He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.”

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Author:Giovanna Cau

“I've always appreciated people like Graham Parker or Loudon Wainwright III, who spend their entire lives writing songs and working their asses off just to have complete artistic freedom. They're just sharing their lives with you through their music. That's the same kind of work that I'm trying to do, in my own weird way.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“I definitely learned to embrace the quiet moments onstage from Garry Shandling - relaxing and not fighting with the crowd, not raising your voice, not ever trying to win them over.”

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Book:Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy

Source: Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy

“I try to just save a fresh, clear head for whoever I'm working with, so hopefully it's helpful that there's someone who doesn't have to sit in the editing room for 12 hours a day, and who's blinded by the massive footage and options that they have.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

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