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There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.
Author:
Edward Zwick
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The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
Author:
Mark Zuckerberg
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When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way.
Author:
John Zorn
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We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
Author:
Rachel Zoe
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Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
Author:
Philip Zimbardo
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Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
Author:
Xun Zi
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Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.
Author:
Jamie Zawinski
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Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.
Author:
Abraham Zapruder
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I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.
Author:
Townes Zandt
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I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
Author:
Jay Z
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I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.
Author:
Steve Yzerman
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Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
Author:
Neil Young
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I'm trying to go over my lines. I woke up on the floor, somebody had me in their arms. I didn't quite know who, people looked so unfamiliar. That's about all I remember.
Author:
Dick York
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Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.
Author:
Dwight Yoakam
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
Author:
Zhang Yimou
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I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
Author:
William Wyler
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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
Author:
Steven Wright
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I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.
Author:
Peter Wright
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
Author:
Fay Wray
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I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.
Author:
Tiger Woods
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Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.
Author:
Alfre Woodard
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Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.
Author:
Roy Wood
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We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.
Author:
Ron Wood
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So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.
Author:
Elijah Wood
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I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.
Author:
Tobias Wolff
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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
Author:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But we're trying to get a lot of particles because experimental physicists have discovered a lot of particles.
Author:
Edward Witten
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I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.
Author:
Reese Witherspoon
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In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.
Author:
Shelley Winters
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All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
Author:
Shelley Winters
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I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.
Author:
Alex Winter
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Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.
Author:
Kathleen Winsor
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The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.
Author:
Kip Winger
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I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did.
Author:
Marie Windsor
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I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.
Author:
Terri Windling
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Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up.
Author:
Luke Wilson
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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.
Author:
Luke Wilson
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It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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It's a morality film, and it poses the question "What would you do?" I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along.
Author:
Kevin Williamson
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I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.
Author:
Walter Williams
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I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.
Author:
Ricky Williams
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I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.
Author:
Montel Williams
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I'm trying to get out of my own way.
Author:
Lucinda Williams
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I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.
Author:
Lucinda Williams
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I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.
Author:
Lucinda Williams
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I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.
Author:
Lucinda Williams
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I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
Author:
Ian Williams
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One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.
Author:
Bill Williams
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When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.
Author:
Prince William
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I don't know why my lines that were cut from the film didn't make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the editing room with Christopher and work shoulder to shoulder with him to fit all my lines in. I think he thinks I'm kidding. I'm only trying to help.
Author:
Fred Willard
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So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
Author:
Gene Wilder
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They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.
Author:
Billy Wilder
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.
Author:
Olivia Wilde
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We're all just playing our own game. I don't see it as a rivalry. We're just trying to play our best.
Author:
Michelle Wie
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
Author:
John Whittier
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So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.
Author:
Margaret Whiting
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Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.
Author:
Katherine Whitehorn
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
Author:
Ron White
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
Author:
Patrick White
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What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.
Author:
Bryan White
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The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.
Author:
Joss Whedon
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Author:
Edith Wharton
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I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.
Author:
Vivienne Westwood
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I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.
Author:
Kanye West
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I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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Without trying, I'm different.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.
Author:
Lawrence Welk
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Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.
Author:
Curt Weldon
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We felt often that we were perceived as mothers trying to be lawyers, while a male colleague of ours who had a young child was perceived as a lawyer who also happened to be a father.
Author:
Anne Weisberg
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I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.
Author:
Anthony Weiner
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We're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of.
Author:
Anthony Weiner
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Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.
Author:
Caspar Weinberger
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I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.
Author:
Max Weinberg
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I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.
Author:
Len Wein
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And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.
Author:
Sanford Weill
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I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.
Author:
Chris Wedge
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I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.
Author:
Chris Webber
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I'm not trying to win individual awards.
Author:
Chris Webber
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
Author:
Karrie Webb
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Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
Author:
Beatrice Webb
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I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
Author:
John Wayne
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We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.
Author:
Keenen Wayans
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But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.
Author:
Damon Wayans
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Author:
Alan Watts
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That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
Author:
Bill Watterson
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Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.
Author:
Doc Watson
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It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.
Author:
Barry Watson
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I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.
Author:
Maxine Waters
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I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be.
Author:
Crystal Waters
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I think people are tired of politicians trying to poke each other in the eye.
Author:
Mark Warner
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My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
Author:
Mark Warner
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I have been trying to lose weight for the last two-three months and it has gone really well. In the last 6-12 months I have been in the best form in quite a while.
Author:
Shane Warne
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During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.
Author:
Chris Ware
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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.
Author:
Chris Ware
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However, most of my part, I play a pediatrician, and most of my role had to do with being in another place, staying at the hospital and trying to save kids and stay until people could come. So, it was more based on reality.
Author:
Sela Ward
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I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.
Author:
Fred Ward
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It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.
Author:
Fred Ward
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Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for awhile. That's probably one reason I became an actor.
Author:
Fred Ward
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I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.
Author:
Fred Ward
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I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.
Author:
Patrick Warburton
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But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.
Author:
Rob Walton
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I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months.
Author:
Jim Walton
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You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
Author:
J. Walters
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Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?
Author:
Jessica Walter
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I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.
Author:
Ray Walston
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Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.
Author:
Marc Wallice
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We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.
Author:
David Walliams
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It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
Author:
David Wallace
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Author:
Larry Wall
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You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
Author:
Mort Walker
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Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.
Author:
Brian Walker
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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?
Author:
Alice Walker
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I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
Author:
Tom Waits
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I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world.
Author:
Rick Wagoner
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Right now I'm trying to do a fragrance called Natalie. She's very, very much alive for us.
Author:
Robert Wagner
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It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.
Author:
Sid Waddell
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Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter.
Author:
Sid Waddell
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Author:
Voltaire
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That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.
Author:
Miroslav Vitous
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This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.
Author:
David Viscott
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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
Author:
David Viscott
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I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.
Author:
Tim Vine
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We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.
Author:
Charles Vest
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Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.
Author:
Ben Vereen
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We've had public hearings. We've had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to provide to the public. We have brought the public along with us, trying to make as much available as possible over time.
Author:
Richard Veniste
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Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.
Author:
Suzanne Vega
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Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others.
Author:
James Vega
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What I am trying to get across to you; is please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are hear for, that's all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?
Author:
Stevie Vaughan
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You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.
Author:
Stevie Vaughan
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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.
Author:
Jhonen Vasquez
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
Author:
Ville Valo
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Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.
Author:
Leon Uris
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I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.
Author:
Carrie Underwood
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All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.
Author:
Carrie Underwood
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I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.
Author:
Lars Ulrich
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They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.
Author:
Tom Udall
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I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.
Author:
Liv Tyler
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Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.
Author:
Jeff Tweedy
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By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Author:
Mark Twain
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For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
Author:
Desmond Tutu
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I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.
Author:
Ike Turner
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The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.
Author:
Edward Tufte
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The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
Author:
Edward Tufte
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Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.
Author:
Tanya Tucker
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If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
Author:
Donald Trump
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China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does.
Author:
Donald Trump
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Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
Author:
Harry Truman
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I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
Author:
G. Trudeau
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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
Author:
Calvin Trillin
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You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.
Author:
Obie Trice
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
Author:
Obie Trice
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We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
Author:
Pat Travers
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I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.
Author:
Boris Trajkovski
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Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.
Author:
Michelle Trachtenberg
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What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.
Author:
Pete Townshend
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There's nothing wrong with trying to reach out to new fans.
Author:
Carrot Top
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I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
Author:
Justin Timberlake
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Well, I guess, but I just feel so strong. Actually, it was probably when I was 50 that we were trying to - to get pregnant, and I thought that I could do it then.
Author:
Cheryl Tiegs
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The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
Author:
Mac Thornberry
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas.
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Emma Thompson
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What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together.
Author:
Emma Thompson
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You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake.
Author:
Michael Thomas
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They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.
Author:
Michael Thomas
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What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors.
Author:
Marlo Thomas
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To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
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Margaret Thatcher
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I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.
Author:
Lee Tergesen
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We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.
Author:
Benmont Tench
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There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.
Author:
Robert Teeter
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I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point.
Author:
Lawrence Taylor
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In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.
Author:
Donna Tartt
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
Author:
Quentin Tarantino
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
Author:
Quentin Tarantino
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Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it.
Author:
Amber Tamblyn
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Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.
Author:
Gay Talese
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Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana.
Author:
Paul Tagliabue
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I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
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William Taft
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I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.
Author:
Tilda Swinton
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I'm trying to forget how much that cost, but I just had to have them.
Author:
Keith Sweat
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I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men.
Author:
Jimmy Swaggart
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The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.
Author:
Kiefer Sutherland
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I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.
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Ethan Suplee
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I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
Author:
Andy Summers
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I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham.
Author:
Ruben Studdard
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And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.
Author:
Trish Stratus
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I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.
Author:
David Strathairn
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During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.
Author:
Lytton Strachey
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Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration.
Author:
Madeleine Stowe
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Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Author:
W. Stone
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Author:
W. Stone
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I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America.
Author:
Robert Stone
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
Author:
Oliver Stone
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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
Author:
I. Stone
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So one day, in a fit of trying to do something different, I just dyed my hair dark brown and got my first role a week later, after which I thought: 'People are closed-minded, man! Like a different hair colour changes everything!'
Author:
Emma Stone
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I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I've just kind of backed off a little.
Author:
Elvis Stojko
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And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
Author:
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.
Author:
James Stockdale
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The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions.
Author:
Henry Stimson
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Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.
Author:
Stephen Stills
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Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.
Author:
Payne Stewart
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Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
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Patrick Stewart
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The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!
Author:
Patrick Stewart
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It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be.
Author:
Kristen Stewart
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You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.
Author:
Jon Stewart
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I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
Author:
Anne Stevenson
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Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural.
Author:
George Stephen
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Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
Author:
Casey Stengel
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Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.
Author:
Leigh Steinberg
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The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.
Author:
Danielle Steel
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We're trying to make a movie that's interesting.
Author:
Jason Statham
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I couldn't believe they were saying I put a horrible fake plastic bosom over scars I was trying to heal and keep it in place with a tight bra, which could stop my blood flow, just so I could fit into my clothes.
Author:
Koo Stark
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I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.
Author:
John Stamos
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Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
Author:
Sylvester Stallone
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If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.
Author:
Frank Stallone
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That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.
Author:
Steven Squyres
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I believe we've spent many years trying to bring about talks which have all the Parties in Northern Ireland involved so that there'd be inclusive talks.
Author:
Dick Spring
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If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties.
Author:
Dick Spring
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What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
Author:
Benjamin Spock
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I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.
Author:
Mark Spitz
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It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go.
Author:
Mark Spitz
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I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.
Author:
Art Spiegelman
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
Author:
Aaron Spelling
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
Author:
Aaron Spelling
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I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.
Author:
John Speke
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The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.
Author:
Aries Spears
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I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.
Author:
Boris Spassky
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It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to sell out. I'm sure I will, but I'm just trying to postpone it.
Author:
David Spade
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Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.
Author:
Kevin Spacey
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Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.
Author:
David Soul
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I'm not trying to do conceptual art.
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Peter Sotos
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But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.
Author:
Shannyn Sossamon
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I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying.
Author:
Shannyn Sossamon
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When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.
Author:
Barry Sonnenfeld
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If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
Author:
Stephen Sondheim
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I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God.
Author:
James Somerville
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Then there are the people who know me from the lectures. What I am really trying to do, what I need to accomplish at this time, is to fill in the gaps.
Author:
Suzanne Somers
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I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.
Author:
Todd Solondz
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When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.
Author:
Todd Solondz
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I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.
Author:
Lisa Snowdon
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Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.
Author:
Tony Snow
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We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
Author:
John Snow
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We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.
Author:
Dick Smothers
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In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
Author:
Jimmy Smits
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I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think.
Author:
Shepard Smith
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But everyone I know reaches a point where they throw out their arms and go beserk for a while; otherwise you never know what your limits are. I was just trying to find mine.
Author:
Robert Smith
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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
Author:
Logan Smith
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There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.
Author:
Goldwin Smith
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I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.
Author:
Elliott Smith
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And I'm not trying to write heavy songs.
Author:
Elliott Smith
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I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.
Author:
Allan Sloan
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I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.
Author:
Christian Slater
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
Author:
B. Skinner
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I'm currently trying to direct my own material.
Author:
Tom Skerritt
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I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!
Author:
Nikki Sixx
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That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.
Author:
Gene Siskel
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The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.
Author:
Douglas Sirk
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It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.
Author:
Siouxsie Sioux
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Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.
Author:
June Singer
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Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.
Author:
Bryan Singer
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We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.
Author:
Carly Simon
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Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.
Author:
Phil Silvers
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They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.
Author:
Sarah Silverman
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To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.
Author:
Josh Silver
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The biggest challenge was trying to convey the story of the making of a film that isn't finished yet - and which won't be finished until the third film, The Return of the King, reaches our cinemas towards the end of 2003!
Author:
Brian Sibley
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Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.
Author:
Maria Shriver
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All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
Author:
Martin Short
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I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.
Author:
Clare Short
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I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
Author:
John Shirley
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George Bush is trying to play it both ways.
Author:
Mark Shields
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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
Author:
William Sherman
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I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.
Author:
Allan Sherman
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And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.
Author:
Duncan Sheik
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Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?
Author:
Gary Sheffield
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I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
Author:
Charlie Sheen
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Don't ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up.
Author:
Ryan Sheckler
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It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords.
Author:
Tommy Shaw
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My biggest problem in middle school was catty girls, cliques, and trying to figure out if I wanted to be a part of one of those, just figuring out who I was and all that.
Author:
Lindsey Shaw
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All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
Author:
Tupac Shakur
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I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.
Author:
Shakira
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I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on.
Author:
Ben Shahn
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I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.
Author:
John Sexton
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And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.
Author:
John Sexton
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So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.
Author:
John Sexton
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It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.
Author:
John Sexton
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The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times.
Author:
Jose Serrano
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I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding.
Author:
Tom Selleck
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Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.
Author:
David Selby
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I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.
Author:
Bob Seger
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I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back.
Author:
Jason Segel
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It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I'm trying to say.
Author:
Kyra Sedgwick
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Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
Author:
Lance Secretan
