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“Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.”

People Thinking Trying Fall Ego Sells Falling Down

Author:Edward Ruscha

“A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.”

People Thinking Needs Trying Book Black Dark Dangerous Crime Realised

Author:Ian Rankin

“The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.”

Needs Trying Enough Character Difficult Novel Crime Elements Red Patterns Theme Multitudes Linked Strands Unruly Herring Crime Novels Red Herrings

Author:Ian Rankin

“The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are.”

People Trying Reason

Author:Kelly Reilly

“I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.”

People Ifs Trying Sometimes Would Be Night Answers Strange Conversation Dating Personal Life All Night Snaps Paparazzi Weird Things Up All Night

Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?”

Thinking Knows Trying Sound Existence Band Mature

Author:Adam Rich

“We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.”

Writing Trying Persons Song Band Just One

Author:Adam Rich

“I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline.”

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Author:Amy Ray

“To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!”

Trying Hard Next Fun Ready Hard Work Months Instinct Candidates Being Yourself Guts Apprentice Gut Instinct

Author:Bill Rancic

“Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.”

Trying Different Today Natural Design Intelligent Different Things Pilots Airplane Crash Selection Natural Selection Intelligent Design

Author:Burt Rutan

“There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.”

Trying Littles Easy Bits Industry Amount Little Bit Picks Sells Enormous Bunch Tendencies Data Bias Cherries

Author:Burt Rutan

“I drink a lot of water and always try to stay hydrated.”

Trying Water Drink

Author:Christie Rampone

“While traveling, I love granola bars, trail mix nuts, dry cereal and fruit for on-the-go snacks. I also try and start the day with a high fiber and protein meal, such as whole-grain toast with peanut butter.”

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Author:Christie Rampone

“Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.”

People Thinking Giving Trying Helping Differences Growing Up Growing Organization Institutions Educational Making A Difference Scholarship Educational Institutions

Author:David Rubenstein

“I don't really try to get involved politically by giving money to politicians or by saying I'm a Democrat or Republican. Right now, I just view myself as an American.”

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Author:David Rubenstein

“I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats.”

Trying Rap Throat

Author:Dee Dee Ramone

“I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.”

Knows Trying Enough Know How Rap Good Enough Not Good Enough

Author:Dee Dee Ramone

“I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.”

Knows Giving Trying I Can Whole Faces Names Memories Nice Streets Conversation Come Up Hey Because I Can Horrific Overdrive Nice To See You

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back and you've had all these very extraordinary experiences with extraordinary people, but there's not a line of continuity to it.”

People Trying Looks Jobs House Lines Roots Extraordinary Chasing Ordinary People Continuity

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.”

Trying Children I Can Dream Environment Balance Creating Pursue My Children Stable

Author:Gabrielle Reece

“I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.”

People Thinking Trying Sometimes Hard Done Moving Talent Hard Work Make A Move

Author:Gabrielle Reece

“I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.”

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Author:Graham Russell

“I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.”

People Trying Bigs Song Simple Fans Theory Messages Simplicity Complicated

Author:Graham Russell

“The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.”

Ifs Trying Persons Best Things Things To Do Accomplished

Author:Guy Ritchie

“Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.”

Trying Deals Humility Circumstances Good Things Sincere

Author:Michael J. Fox

“The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.”

Thinking Trying Mean Has Beens Reality Circumstances Painful Spending Ministers Things To Do Right Thing Prime Prime Minister Private Sector Borrowing Chunks Bail

Author:John Redwood

“I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway.”

Trying Ends Hate I Hate Response Not Interested Hang Ups

Author:John Shelton Reed

“And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.”

Trying Believe Long Ideas Running Don't Believe Brilliant Filmmaker Theatrical

Author:Josh Radnor

“We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.”

Trying Jobs Policy Ministers Australia Prime Foreign Policy Prime Minister

Author:Kevin Rudd

“I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.”

Thinking Trying Artist Producers Songwriters Publicists

Author:L.A. Reid

“I try to be kind to people, to treat them with respect. And I'm proud of that.”

People Trying Kind Proud Treats Be Kind

Author:Lee Ryan

“I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.”

People Writing Trying Heart Wanted Chance Organs Topics Urgency Donation Organ Donation

Author:Mary Roach

“I really feel like that concept of enjoying the now and not worrying about the future is what my coach has been trying to teach me for 14 years - and that is what has made me such a different athlete 10 years later, and that is what has made me strong enough mentally to make this Olympic team.”

Feels Trying Years Has Beens Made Different Enough Strong Enjoy Teach Worry Team Concepts Athlete Coaches Strong Enough Not Worrying

Author:Melanie Roach

“It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.”

Trying Littles Trouble Patterns

Author:Nicole Richie

“I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.”

Trying Feelings Problem Wanted Deals Please Like Me Bad Things Athens

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“In the week before a race, I try to stay away from germ areas. I keep disinfectant wipes in my bag for when I have to use a supermarket trolley or something like that.”

Trying Use Race Week Areas Bags Wipe Germs Supermarkets Trolleys

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape.”

Trying Too Much Danger Shapes Pressure

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them.”

Thinking Want Trying Book Territory Heartbreaking

Author:Richard Russo

“I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.”

Thinking Writing Trying Character Ability Vacation Sensibility Another Time

Author:Ron Rash

“I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.”

Thinking Writing Trying Looks Long Stills Novel Look Up Mules Greyhounds

Author:Ron Rash

“On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.”

Way Trying Different Character Stories Shows Happens Lasts Focus Stage Including Stressed Syllables I'm Back Vowels Consonants

Author:Ron Rash

“I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.”

Thinking Want Trying Made Done Chance Embarrassed Torment Another Chance

Author:Sam Raimi

“The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that.”

Knows World Trying Dangerous Weapons Iraq Nuclear Bombs Devices Nuclear Weapons Missiles Dangerous Things

Author:Scott Ritter

“Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.”

Trying Long I Can Fall Successful Hollywood Delay

Author:Shawn Ryan

“I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.”

Feels Trying Stills Shows Driven Episodes

Author:Shawn Ryan

“I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Persons Achieve

Author:Sonny Rollins

“Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.”

Trying Country Hands Running Left Afghanistan Regimes Alliances Puppets Kabul Warlords

Author:Ted Rall

“While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.”

Trying Two Reason Done Three Stuff And Love Reason Why Quirky

Author:Trevor Rabin

“You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory' before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.”

Ifs Knows Trying Done Whole Moments Dream Games Memories Whole Life That Moment

Author:Wayne Rooney

“I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.”

Ifs Thinking Men Feels Trying Labels Wizards Rust Tin Tin Man

Author:Ali Smith

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