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“I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie I'm just like, 'It's great.”

Thinking Trying Years Made Direct Frustrated

Author:Melanie Laurent

“I live in LA so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent, so I can deal with that.”

Want Trying Years Home Kids School Three Speak Worry Four Connected British Britain Coming Home Get Back Accents

Author:Kevin McKidd

“I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything.”

Thinking Way Trying Years Wells Bigs My Own Crazy Balance Overcoming Profession My Way Insecurity Midst Hurdle

Author:Rebecca De Mornay

“A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.”

Trying Years Kind Children Feelings Might Kids Age Actors Grows Growing Up Adults Hanging Out Presentation Poise Child Actors

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.”

Trying Years America Parent Half Study Groups Six Excellent Permission Boston Scholarship Yale Consulting Half A Year

Author:Indra Nooyi

“You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.”

Trying Years Long I Can Feelings Body Natural Careers Late Feel Good Get Better Best Year

Author:David Ortiz

“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

“I'm always interested in finding the new trend. If you love pizza every day, after 22 years of eating pizza, you want to try sushi.”

Ifs Want Trying Years Findings Eating Trends Pizza Sushi

Author:Jean Pigozzi

“I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong.”

Trying Years Figures Workplace

Author:Paulina Porizkova

“The last four years under President Obama have been trying and troubling for this entire country. The tired big government policies of the past have failed us. We can't afford more disappointments. We need a new direction. We need a new president.”

Needs Trying Years Has Beens Country Bigs Government Lasts Past President Four Policy Tired Disappointment President Obama Four Years Big Government New Directions Government Policy

Author:Reince Priebus

“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

“So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.”

Trying Years Stills I Can Happens Goal Deals Records Lucky My Friends Supposed To Be Whatever Happens Great Faith

Author:Jane Siberry

“Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many of them. That's why - you know that's why I started talking about it, so that they didn't hear just the terrible stories.”

People Knows Trying Years Stories America Faces Talking Gone Couple Terrible Right Now Dilemma Through The Years

Author:Joan Lunden

“Learn to meditate, practice and don't get frustrated. It will take you years to learn to meditate perfectly. Every time you try, you are growing. It's not as if you have to meditate perfectly to make progress.”

Ifs Trying Years Practice Meditation Growing Progress Buddhism Frustrated

Author:Frederick Lenz

“God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.”

People Knows Want Writing Trying Years Humans Heart Has Beens Book Natural Secret Thousand Preserves Contribution Thousand Years Human Heart Natural History

Author:August Strindberg

“Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.”

Giving Trying Years Christian Simple Accepting Giving Up Blessed Christian Inspirational Questioning Through The Years Simple Faith

Author:Vance Havner

“What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.”

Ifs Trying Years Grows Risk Taught Willing Performers New Things Improvisation

Author:Jack McBrayer

“I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I'm aware of the landscape. I'm a competitor, so I have to know whom I'm competing with.”

Knows Trying Years Two Shows Paper Landscape Episodes Competing Papers Competitors Surfing Surf Surfing The Web

Author:Leslie Moonves

“I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.”

Writing Trying Years I Can Two Stories Race Direct Two Years Take Me

Author:Steven Spielberg

“TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.”

Trying Years School Cities Four High School Four Years Mayors

Author:Jenny Holzer

“By trying to live Christmas 12 months a year, we CAN make this world a better place to live - for others and for ourselves.”

World Trying Years This World Months Better Place Places To Live Live For Others

Author:Mary Kay Ash

“Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.”

Writing Trying Years Long Bits Years Ago Madness Sensitive

Author:Damon Albarn

“You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years.”

Trying Years Left Scar Rest Of Your Life Formative Years

Author:Todd Edwards

“I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.”

Thinking Writing Trying Years Together Song Seeing Fit Healthy Shapes Rivers Chords Folds Lennon

Author:Andrew Dost

“How do they find out with the experiments?''...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.''But isn't that unkind to the animal?''Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.”

Ifs World Way Trying Years Wells Mean Children Different Whole Lasts Animal Changed Dad Hundred Ill Experiments Whole World One Way Different Ways Exaggeration Unkind

Author:Richard Adams

“I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.”

Writing Trying Years Song

Author:Sondre Lerche

“For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.”

Trying Years Firsts Industry Fats Pharmaceutical Food Industry Pharmaceutical Industry

Author:Pierre Dukan

“You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying.”

Trying Years Shows Winning Fans Draws Championship

Author:Tom Hicks

“Four years ago, I felt the importance of the Olympics and how it is different from other events. It's a completely different atmosphere. The main advice I can give my teammates is to try to enjoy the experience.”

Giving Trying Years I Can Different Felt Enjoy Four Advice Events Years Ago Importance Atmosphere Four Years Olympics Teammate

Author:Kohei Uchimura

“When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.”

Trying Years Wanted Left South Available South Africa 1960s Music Education

Author:Hugh Masekela

“What the hell is the sense of trying to hold the Democratic party together, if it's really a party of expediency, something that's put together every four years?”

Ifs Trying Years Together Party Hell Four Democratic Four Years Democratic Party Expediency

Book:Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

“I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.”

Trying Years Done Jobs Film Balance Independent Good Job Independent Film

Author:John Travolta

“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

“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.”

Ifs Way Trying Years Ends Courses Teach Practice Study Four Teaching Taught Theory Four Years Engineering Unbroken

Author:Charles Kettering

“Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.”

Trying Years Five Weapons Nuclear Iran Nuclear Weapons Diplomacy

Author:Joseph Cirincione

“I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.”

Trying Years Bigs Happens Past Havens Garden

Author:Claire Tomalin

“All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.”

World Giving Trying Years Dies Winning Failing Tears Failure Honor Thousand Glory Prize Cried Thousand Years

Book:The Building of the City Beautiful

Source: The Building of the City Beautiful

“So here I am - a 75-year-old man sitting on a bar stool in a blues club, trying to figure out exactly how I got here. Any way you look at it, it's a helluva story.”

Men Way Trying Years Looks Stories Figures Sitting Clubs Bars Old Man Here I Am Stools

Author:Buddy Guy

“I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things.”

Thinking Trying Years Has Beens Important Opportunity Discipline Prison Sensations

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“The hard work, you discover over the years, is in learning to discern between correct and incorrect anxiety, between the anxiety that's trying to warn you about a real danger and the anxiety that's nothing more than a lying, sadistic, unrepentant bully in your head.”

Trying Years Real Hard Lying Danger Hard Work Anxiety Bully Sadistic

Book:Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety

Source: Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety

“I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.”

People Trying Years Five Ten Years Ago Lifetime Committed Clock Score Better Now

Author:Jerry Garcia

“Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some way. On the other hand, if I try to assist you in every way that I can to make a better citizen and in every way to do my very best for you, I am kind to you. The above principles apply with equal force to the soil. The farmer whose soil produces less every year, is unkind to it in some way; that is, he is not doing by it what he should; he is robbing it of some substance it must have, and he becomes, therefore, a soil robber rather than a progressive farmer.”

Ifs Way Should Trying Years Kind Mean I Can Hands Force Principles Land Produce Citizens Equal Injustice Substance Soil Progressive Farmers Unkind Robbers Robbing Unkindness

Author:George Washington Carver

“Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise, and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime - repeat them years after you have forgotten them.”

“I go to the favelas in Brazil. It's the same in the South Side of Chicago. It's the same, or just more violent. We're trying to get them to stop selling dope. You see kids with AK-47s, and nine-year-olds with nine millimeters. You know, they don't play. They make us look like nuns.”

Knows Trying Years Looks Play Kids Sides South Nine Violent Selling Chicago Dope Brazil Nun Nine Years Favelas

Author:Quincy Jones

“When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two, and if it didn't work out, I'd put my nose to the grindstone and try to find a job somehow. I went to UCB, and it clicked with me.”

Ifs Trying Years Firsts Two Jobs Parent Comedy College Work Out Pursue Noses Grindstone

Author:Ben Schwartz

“There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking, the habit of fooling around and trying things out gets ingrained.”

Ifs Trying Years Long Values Habit Insane Suicidal Obscurity Fooling Around

Author:Jules Olitski

“I've spent years trying to "get in touch with my inner child," but now my new therapist tells me it's mostly been inappropriate touching.”

Trying Years Children Touching Therapists Inappropriate Inner Child

Author:Lev L. Spiro

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