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I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.

It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for.

I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

I try and play 2 or 3 times a week to stay on my game.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

I try not to fake anything.

It would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain that cappucinos have something to do with it.

For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.

I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.

I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I would love to try to win another game. Obviously, it's more fun when you win. I'd rather try and not win than not try at all.

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.