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“I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want.”

Thinking Want Trying Stills Sometimes Stuff Eating Careful Be Careful Always Trying Burgers

Author:Camilla Luddington

“Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.”

People Thinking Trying Sometimes Purpose Extremity Working With Others Saboteurs

Author:Mark Leyner

“Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.”

Feels Trying Sometimes Process Creative Doors Opening Creative Process Closing Exit Never Ending

Author:Chris Ofili

“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

“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 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

“Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.”

People Want Trying Sometimes Turns Achieve What You Want Twists Poisonous Detrimental

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“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.”

Trying Sometimes Lines My Own Clear Caught Worried Caught Up

Author:Chris Ware

“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.”

People Way Trying Kind Sometimes Kids School Figures High School

Author:Luke Wilson

“I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.”

People Ifs Trying Sometimes Hate I Hate Phones Enormous Get Back Personal Business

Author:Vera Wang

“It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.”

Trying Sometimes Wisdom Wise Clever

Author:William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

“Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's hard for me to focus that way, because I always think it's more interesting to just see what will happen next.”

Thinking Way Writing Trying Sometimes Hard Bigs Happens Song Next Interesting Focus Bridges Sections Bass Sketchy

Author:Ryan Adams

“LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder) I wrote to myself recently. Live in your joy today. Be authentic. Love yourself. First. Love others from your own abundance. Life Changes. Circumstances change. Sometimes you try to fit your old way of being into new circumstances rather than becoming new yourself. Embrace transformation as an opportunity. And keep on writing love letters to yourself.”

“In terms of facial creams or lotions, I try to switch it up and stay as natural as possible. l like Le Mer facial cream for when I have an event. It's very rich and sometimes too rich for some people, but I like it.”

People Trying Sometimes Term Natural Rich Events Cream Facial Lotion

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you.”

Ifs Trying Sometimes Hate Challenges Interesting Balls Harder Screens Tennis Really Interesting

Author:Joseph Morgan

“There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe.”

Feels Trying Sometimes Like You Shoes Nails

Author:George R. R. Martin

“What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.”

People Trying Wells Sometimes Hard Wanted Deals Stress

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the characters behave in a way that feels natural to them. Sometimes that means they make a left turn and do something unexpected. Those are always the best scenes in my opinion.”

People Way Feels Writing Trying Mean Real Sometimes Character Turns Left Natural Opinion Scene Surprise Behave Unexpected Something Unexpected

Author:Brad Falchuk

“I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.”

Trying Stills Two Sometimes Roles Publishing Translate

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“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

“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.”

Knows Trying Kind Country Sometimes Lost Pleasure Cities Cadillacs

Author:Black Francis

“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.”

Ifs Knows Needs Feels Trying Sometimes Three Come Up Angle Frustrating Fitting Measuring

Author:Beth Gibbons

“In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.”

Trying Sometimes Deeper Holes

Author:Wellington Mara

“I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.”

Feels Trying Kind Sometimes Like You Sympathetic

Author:Charlize Theron

“I always have to remember that I am the narrator, but it doesn't have to be about me. A lot of songwriting is about trying to use what part of me is valid in telling the story. I don't want to overcook it, you know? Sometimes it seems that's really where the work is.”

Knows Want Trying Sometimes Stories Use Seems Remember Songwriting Narrators

Author:Ryan Adams

“Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.”

Trying Important Sometimes Hard Temper Temperance

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.”

Trying Has Beens Sometimes Whole Fall Sides Walks Path Danger Walking Stones Edges Whole Life Mainstream Abyss Jumping Chasms Narrow Path

Book:Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist

Source: Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist

“Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate his success. What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that`s what gets p... Judith Regan.”

People Trying Years Has Beens Sometimes Eye Culture Watches Loud Editors Vulgar Amusement Amused Duplicate Intervening Brash Regan

Author:Judith Regan

“When I'm a little fatigued, sometimes I baby it. I don't try to do it. I'm not 100 percent. I probably won't be the rest of conference play. I just have to play through it. I've never really been injured before.”

Trying Littles Sometimes Play Baby Percent Conferences Fatigue Injured

Author:Bobby Jones

“Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.”

Trying Sometimes Happens Effort Make It Happen

Author:Ken Venturi

“Home runs just come from accidents by me, ... I just try to hit it solid and sometimes they go out. The record is nice to have but I'm not trying to hit them.”

Trying Sometimes Home Running Records Nice Accidents Home Run

Author:Craig Biggio

“In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.”

Trying Humans Children Stills Sometimes Joy Speak Fun Stars Healthy Laughter Species Ridiculous Innocence Reaching Human Species Joy Of Living Reaching For The Stars Disney Animation

Author:Walt Disney

“God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.”

Trying Doe Sometimes Wish Adversity Hardship Bless Best Wishes

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.”

Feels Trying Sometimes Reason Life Is Purpose Practice Illusion Yoga Empty No Reason Life Has No Meaning

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are psychic, you can see into the minds of others. You can use that opening to aid somebody. Sometimes someone's trying to tell you something and they don't even know what it is.”

Ifs Knows Trying Mind Sometimes Use Seeing Aids Opening Psychics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The nature of acting is that one is many characters and jumps from one skin to another as a way of life. Sometimes it's hard to know exactly what all of your characters think at the same time. Sometimes one of my characters overrules one of my other characters. I'm trying to get them all to harmonize. It's a hell of a job. It's like driving a coach.”

Thinking Knows Way Trying Sometimes Hard Character Jobs Acting Hell Skins Coaches Driving

Author:Anjelica Huston

“Sometimes when I look back on myself on those earlier records, there was so much effort going in, so much trying. With this, I was trying to make it much more laid back.”

Trying Looks Sometimes Effort Records Laid Back

Author:Kate Bush

“You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.”

People Want Trying I Can Sometimes Hands Difficult Manage Freak Control Freak

Author:Victoria Beckham

“I think I care about beauty, but I don't go for it. I hope it sometimes might be in there. I think, maybe, more in terms of a beautiful moment than trying to figure out what beauty is or what people respond to.”

People Thinking Trying Sometimes Moments Might Care Beautiful Term Figures I Care Beautiful Moments

Author:Susan Rothenberg

“When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.”

Want Trying Said Sometimes Hard Song Records Productions Over It Vocal

Author:Sampha

“Because sometimes when someone is telling you something really important, it’s best to just let there be silence, to really think about what they’re saying. A lot of times people think they have to say something all insightful or wise or something to try and make the person feel better. But really, sometimes silence is best.”

People Thinking Feels Trying Persons Important Sometimes Silence Wise Insightful Feel Better Silence Is

Book:The Thing About the Truth

Source: The Thing About the Truth

“You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.”

Ifs Trying Wells Looks Sometimes Reason Film Audience Successful Reason Why

Author:Robert Wise

“I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies.”

World Want Trying Self Sometimes Done Wanted Earth Night Certain Broken Rain Mood Self Absorbed Weasels Broken World Sad Movie

Book:Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“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.”

Trying Sometimes Asks Opportunity Stuff Prayer Worship Supplication

Author:Francis Collins

“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.”

Thinking Trying Doe Sometimes Happens Audience Figures Balance Asking Imaginary Carried Away

Author:David Byrne

“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."”

People Trying Different Sometimes Freak What Did I Do Wrong

Author:David Fincher

“I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.”

Trying Sometimes Obvious Routes

Author:Al Yankovic