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Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.

I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season.

I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.

Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.

I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my teammates.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I'm on an airplane - I have a fear of flying, but I actually love flying because it's the only time I can sleep, and it's the only time I get to read.

But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.

For the love of God, folks, don't try this at home.

Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.

I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

I don't really try to judge any character that I play, afterwards I figure it out, but while I'm working on the character, I have to find something in them to relate to.

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.