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My mission in life is to try and get to a point where my insides world is not affected by the outside world.

HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.

Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up.

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn't even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable.

I try not to date musicians. It's all I've dated. Every guy I've dated is a musician. Obviously, it's not working.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road.

You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

I try to stay fit. I try and do something every day but I don't jog. My body hates jogging.

I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.