Quotes 101 till 120 of 448.
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
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How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
Paradise (1998) -
I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
Interview on "NOW" with Bill Moyers on May 9, 2003 -
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
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I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.
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I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.
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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.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.
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I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.
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I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
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I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.
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I don't need to cry so much. I think whatever you let loose with crying, I let loose with singing. I tend to be the one who wants... I'm trying to say this without sounding too touchy-feely. I'm usually the one who's better at comforting the person who's crying, you know?
Jane magazine, April 2000 -
I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'm not manipulating my sound to be like anybody or trying to write to sound like anybody else.
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I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.
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I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say no, never stop trying, and to always believe that you can do better than the next fellow. I tried to follow this throughout my life, but I always tried to be respectful about it.
As quoted in an interview with Marc Blau (2004) -
I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
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I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
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