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I try to do my best to have fun off the court.

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.

The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

I'll try anything once.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.

I'm not a huge gym person, so I try to stay away from the gym. But I love to run on the beach or go for a walk. It's better than riding a stationary bike.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.

Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to... integrate into the civilized world.

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.

What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.