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My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.

My biggest thing is to stay with my approach and take quality ABs to the plate. I'm just trying to keep it simple.

My books are always tactical, bullet lists, this is what you need to do because I'm trying to appeal to people who are trying to change the world and they need checklists.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

My brother and I used to try to derail a train over and over again. We didn't know any better.

My caddie dared me to try it, but I didn't think it was worth losing a ball.

My character is different from all of the Elves you've met before, in that she's really young. And I keep telling journalists this because I've really focused on that in my performance. I'm trying to distinguish her from all of these incredibly sage and wise Elves that have lived for thousands of years.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

My career has taken so many different paths to this point that I've come to realise that we're all the same, everywhere I've been. We're all just creatures trying to tell stories as good as we can, so whether that's in a tiny theatre or as part of the biggest multi-million dollar film, we're all still just trying to tell a good story at the end of the day.

My concern is what fight we can give to the fans. My first concern as a boxer is to try hard and give a good fight for the fans.

My dad always said to go for my hobby and used to commend me for my excellent judgement so i try to do the similar for my children.

My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.

My dad told me at the very beginning of my career, basically, "If you're gonna have a megaphone, you're gonna need to use it to do some kind of good." He has always been aggravated by any kind of celebrities that don't have any charities or love or passion or something they're trying to help.

My daily routine varies, but there are certain things I try to stick to, like journaling in the morning and establishing my mood before I check any social media or take any calls or e-mails. That helps get me started on the right foot.

My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

My dog has a cough. If you've never seen a dog with a cough, I recommend trying to find one. It's hilarious.

My dogs can't do anything--and what a relief. I don't make any demands of them, and I don't try to shape them or their future. For the most part, I trust them to make the right choices for themselves. I always look forward to seeing them, and I love just watching them sleep. What a great relationship.

My description of fun would be to sit on someone's couch and watch TV. Regular cable TV. When I'm in a hotel, on-demand is the same. I watch the TV in another language, trying to figure out what they're saying.

My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.

My directing is really weird. Everything is based on whether it's working or not. I don't try to fix something if it's not working, I'll just change it.

My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly interested in designing and creating documentaries like fiction, so it was a natural evolution to try and embark on doing a dramatic narrative.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather like unrequited love, like a symptom of the hopelessness of trying to grasp what is boundless, or unite what cannot be joined; a reminder of how finite, how curtailed, our experience on earth must be

My entire life was dedicated to defeating communism. I felt really great when Ronald Reagan helped us establish peace and the elimination of communism from Russia. We are now dealing with a national power, and, you know, it is a big power in the world. It's no longer being motivated by communist ideology that has it trying to overthrow democratic governments and replace them with atheistic communist dictatorships.

My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.

My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.

My earliest memory? Trying to use a red jelly bean as lipstick.

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.

My dreams kept me trying when I could have quit.

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so many things to do.

My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.

My entire purpose is trying to be the best in the game, and if that exudes beauty too, that's pretty powerful.

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.

My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people.

My family is happy. That makes my job a lot easier. For the fans, I try to put it all out there on the floor.

My family keeps me pretty grounded. Like if I try anything diva, they're like, 'Oh shut up. Go and do the dishwasher.'

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.

My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.

My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.

My fans have been very loyal to me, so I want 'em into the mix every song. I don't want 'em having breaks on stuff I'm trying to push on them.

My fashion is about the urban woman in the year 3000. I think about obscure, weird things and try to create a world around them.

My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.

My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.

My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do better.' I just try to listen to the characters. That's what works for me.

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.