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I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.

You just try to be nice to everybody and treat them all the same. Treat them how you would want to be treated.

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on 'Food Network.'

I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don't want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

Don't try too hard to be something you're not.

There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits.

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.

Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.

I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.

I don't smoke, I try to eat right, and I love doing yoga and going for hikes with my dog.

It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'

When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.

In the week before a race, I try to stay away from germ areas. I keep disinfectant wipes in my bag for when I have to use a supermarket trolley or something like that.

If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people.

When I was a young player, I would look at players and think, he does this well, and try and pick up good points from them, or he conducts himself well, I'll pick up on that.

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.