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  • Ansel Adams I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Cormac McCarthy I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.
    No Country for Old Men (2007) 295
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Beck I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.
    Rolling Stone magazine, 1996
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Claudia Schiffer I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.
    Claudia Schiffer
    German fashion model and actress (1970 - )
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  • Alanis Morissette I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Donald Trump I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Alice Walker I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • George Orwell I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Mae West I used to be snow white, but I drifted.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Richard J. Needham I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
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  • Andy Warhol I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Robin Williams I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
    Robin Williams
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1951 - 2014)
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  • Robert Brault I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
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  • Abraham Lincoln I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Anthony Hamilton I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.
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  • Alice Munro I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • King Henry IV of France I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
    Original: Je veux que les paysans mettent la poule au pot tous les dimanches.
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Martin Luther King I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Adam Arkin I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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