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You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

I think you should ride the line between fatigue and chaos. The chaos keeps the energy level and spontaneity maximized, while fatigue is just over the edge, and you should try to avoid it.

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.

In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can.

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

One of my challenges was to try to photograph the Great Wall of China. And I did actually take some photos, but it was hard to discern the wall with the naked eye.

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats.

One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.