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Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

Art was a last, desperate attempt for me to be able to exist in the world after trying very hard not to exist in the world and realizing that it was just my lot to be a person and to live in the world. See, the normal world dissolves in these experiences, and you realize that it is just an illusion. But, inevitably, I just kept landing back in the middle of it.

Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.

Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.

As a comedian, I'm like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes as the disasters unfold.

As a blind voter, I'm strongly opposed to the paperless e-voting machines that the NFB is trying to force onto us. I want a voting system that is accessible to as many voters as possible and that also produces an audit trail. The paperless machines are simply the wrong approach, and I support the County's efforts to try to find a better way.

As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia.

As a chef and someone who's been in the restaurant business for almost thirty years now, if there's one thing I learned early on: Never eat at a buffet. I don't want to eat yesterday's food and whatever they're trying to get rid of from their cooler for my lunch, dinner, or breakfast, thank you very much.

As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant and keep your judgments to yourself.

As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.

As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.

As a critic, I try to stay neutral about movies before I see them, but I really wanted "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" to be great. It's based on a barbed memoir by Kim Barker called "The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days In Afghanistan And Pakistan." And its stars Tina Fey, out of her comfort zone, just as Barker was a fish out of water when, in 2004, she began covering the Afghanistan occupation for the Chicago Tribune.

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

As a female band, we don't come from trying to be appealing or "sexy." There are a lot of bands - and I'm not dissing anyone - that talk a lot about being girls. I'm more into the idea of being ourselves and letting that speak for itself.

As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

As a conscious rap artist, you should not want to be in a gangster market. You should be trying to establish your own market, create a place where you can be yourself and make some money and feed your family.

As a director, you're only as good as your collaborators. You surround with collaborators that are going to understand what you're trying to do. Not only that, they're going to push and fight for what you're trying to do.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.

As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

As actors, we try to just do the character justice and try to make the writer's intentions come to life. If you do that to the best of your ability, that's really all you can do. All that other stuff, like a warm reception from fans and viewers, is just icing.

As actors you're always afraid to go too far but Lasse Hallstrom wants you to go too far. He wants you to do it wrong, to be over-the-top, and that's so freeing to be able to think 'Now I can try and be bad'. There's no pressure on you and you don't feel you can make a mistake.

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people. You search for those projects and you hope to realize the potential in a project.

As a first baseman, hitting home runs is what's expected of me. But I don't really try to hit home runs.

A saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.

As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.

As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be Sean Penn, but I didn't have all the words to be Sean Penn. But I was trying to do something different in every role.

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint

As a journalist, I try to be as fact-based and objective as possible, though I'm also aware that objectivity is an illusion. This way of moving through the world is what separates journalists from activists.

A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

As an actor, it's always fun when you're able to feel like there's freedom to explore things and try out jokes and be funny.

As an actor, you're kind of aware of everything, or you try to be, so you take in certain habits or find certain things, such as how someone sits or how demure they are. You get those things about everybody.

As an actor, doing it for 30 years, with every movie, you're trying to figure out a way to make it more naturalistic and more organic to humanity. When you have lines like, "Never let the monster out," it's hard.

As an actor, I love being pushed. I love the feeling of, "Oh my god, I have to keep trying. What else is there to do?".

As an actor, when you're actually trying to embody what it would be like to just know that everyone's at your beck and call, it's quite a thing to absorb what that might be like and what that would do.