- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying Quotes
Sometimes the effort matters more than the outcome.
This collection finds humor and sincerity in the act of trying - baseball becoming enjoyable again only after quitting the attempt to play it, and a small reading ritual used to get through a demanding project. Related reading in I Am Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in a position to bet everything on a creative-writing career - neither the writing-workshop academia life nor the freelance-writer version, trying to scrape by on short stories and house-painting gigs.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In most espionage novels, the characters risk their lives trying to save somebody or while protecting a nation from some threat. In 'The Travelers,' that's not what's going on. I used espionage as a device to heighten the characters' personal dramas.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't always minimal. In the early days, I was laying it on as thickly as I could, trying very hard to get it right. But I found that the harder I tried, the more tired whatever it was I was working on looked. And then I grew tired of it as well.
- Amplifier
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bought a Hofner guitar and amplifier for 32 guineas, then spent ages trying to make a bottleneck. At that point, I was meant to be developing my father's ice-cream cafe into a global concern, but I spent all my time in the stockroom playing slide guitar.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you can write whatever you want and just say it; it's just between you and the audience. There's no process or worrying about anyone else interfering with what you're doing.
- Difficult Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing to pull off in this job.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually had a dream that one of my friends became president, and I was trying to help out with the campaign. It was pretty good.
- Nov 07, 2020
We build camera rigs tailored specifically to the story we're trying to tell or the shot we're trying to capture.
- Nov 07, 2020
My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just trying to get back to normal life.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020