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Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.

I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.

I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.

I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.

I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.

I don't know why I always end up talking about my relationships. I try not to.

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their right-wing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

I try to be realistic, listen to my body and know when to slow down.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.

It's one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will deny it, that was the case with George W. Bush.

Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.

That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.

I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.

I try not to deprive myself of anything. I don't do the low-carb thing or anything like that.

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.