- Culture
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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
- Weed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
To think in terms of what the effect of a story is going to be, as opposed to trying to discover its inner logic, is one of the fundamental dangers in the process.
- Nov 07, 2020
Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dirty Projectors has always been a band that's been card-carrying modernists in terms of pushing different kinds of abstraction to the fore and trying to take them to the center of the culture or something like that.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Think of a pitch in terms of advertising: You're trying to hook a reader the way a commercial tries to hook a detergent user.
- Nov 07, 2020
I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Perfect Sense' is an extremely serious film, and I am an extremely serious film-maker who is trying to explore the medium in original and interesting ways.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama is not only obstructing budget reform; it's almost as if he is trying to make matters worse.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a kid trying to make an impression in the business. I do have 600 films out there that are playing constantly.
- Professors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of educating students, these professors are trying to indoctrinate them.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020