Trying Quotes - Page 416

We try to do different types of projects and last time was a fun event .

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from beginning to end as if it were played by someone else, an imaginary pianist with the conductor trying to impress him with his will, his tempo first of all, plus all the details of his performance.

There is a huge agenda behind trying to destroy me and put me down.

Vlad made a mental note to amend the friend code: thou shalt not date the girl that thy best friend has a crush on...nor shalt thou try sticking thy best friend in the chest with a sharp hunk of wood.

You come out of a woman and you spend the rest of your life trying to get back inside.

I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it's better that you don't open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.

He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

We are trying to prevent a third world war.

I don't take trouble at all to conform a screenplay to my iconography. I don't say, "We can't do that - the audience wouldn't accept it." I try to take the limitations of what is required to play a leading character and then screw with them.

I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.

Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.

I think when you're trying to improve, the most important thing is to always have a plan.

The Christian message is not an exhortation - "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.

The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is like trying to breedcattle with all cows and no bulls.

Encourage anyone who is trying to improve mentally, physically, or spiritually.

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They're my weakness.

Here's what you should say [to an investor]: 'this is what my company does' It's that simple. What you're trying to do is get potential investors to fantasize about how your product or service will make a boatload of money. They can't fantasize if they don't know what you do.

Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings.

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.