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“For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.”

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Author:Uma Thurman

“Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.”

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Author:Yulia Tymoshenko

“So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.”

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Author:Carrie Underwood

“When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.”

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Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.”

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Author:Lars Ulrich

“From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.”

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Author:Michael Urie

“When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.”

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Author:Roberto Unger

“I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.”

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Author:Kate Voegele

“I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.”

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Author:Kate Voegele

“I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.”

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Author:Don Van Vliet

“We went from an era when rock 'n' roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn't realistic. We are trying to make it seem real... relate to our lives.”

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Author:Eddie Vedder

“Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.”

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Author:Gore Verbinski

“I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.”

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Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.”

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Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“Kristin Bauer is so funny. Half the time I'm working with her I'm just trying to keep a straight face.”

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Author:Rutina Wesley

“What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.”

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Author:Tristan Wilds

“I'm just basically trying to make music that feels good. Right now in the music industry there's a real lack of intimacy. You don't really connect with the artist as much anymore, and you don't really understand where they are. I'm basically doing music that illustrates who I am and where I am in my life.”

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Author:Tristan Wilds

“I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.”

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Author:Veronica Webb

“As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.”

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Author:Amy Waldman

“I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.”

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Author:Barry Watson

“Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.”

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Author:Benjamin Walker

“If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won't leave people saying, 'Gee, it could have been better, it could've been this, it could've been that.'”

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Author:Billy West

“And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.”

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“Sometimes I get worried I'm getting too caught up in the nauseatingly oily smoothness of my own line, when all I'm trying to do is make it as clear as possible.”

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Author:Chris Ware

“I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.”

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Author:Chris Ware

“As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.”

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Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.”

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Author:Dar Williams

“The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.”

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Author:Dar Williams

“I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.”

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Author:David Walliams

“Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.”

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Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“I am just trying to keep it real.”

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Author:Jessie Ware

“If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.”

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Author:Jessie Ware

“As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.”

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Author:Judy Woodruff

“People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful.”

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Author:Lawrence Wright

“Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.”

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Author:Luke Wilson

“I'm really just doing whatever comes my way and trying to stay busy and get better at what I'm doing.”

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Author:Luke Wilson

“Sometimes when you get on a new movie you kind of how to figure out the way other people work and it can be like being the new kid in high school where you're just trying to find out where your place is on the movie or on the set.”

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Author:Luke Wilson

“I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved.”

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Author:Mae Whitman

“My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.”

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Author:Mae Whitman

“That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.”

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Author:Margaret Whiting

“Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.”

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Author:Mark Wahlberg

“I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.”

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Author:Michael Weatherly

“I'm in the process of trying to organize my DVDs into some kind of order and it's taking me weeks. I have everything from obscure 'Antonioni' to 'Terminator Salvation.”

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Author:Michael Weatherly

“I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.”

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Author:Mike Weir

“My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.”

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Author:Mike White

“As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.”

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Author:Mike White

“I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.”

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Author:Mike White

“I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.”

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Author:Nik Wallenda

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