Trying Quotes - Page 485

No one can help an alcoholic or addict until he or she is ready to try to get better.

I want to give the audience what they want, but not at all costs. I want to leave them with something. I try to do that with every single movie I make.

I'm just trying to stay aggressive and mix things up enough to be successful.

Usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes. I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and the colors around it and what it will really look like. It's only a guess at the beginning, and then I try to refine it.

I come from theater, originally, and I've worked in many theaters where you make no money, whatsoever. If you got 3,000 people to see your production, it was great. So, I'm always about the work and I always want to strive for making the best story possible. I don't get hung up on trying to compare myself.

Hang 'em first, try 'em later.

I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.

What is it like to be connected to someone you can never get away from, for better or worse? I love trying to answer that question.

I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.

I am trying to keep growing and improving as a writer.

Try to capture what you can't bear to be without

I glanced at Carson, who had promised things would be alright. His gaze was on the floor, and a muscle in his jaw flexed rhythmically but unhelpfully. If he was trying to send me a message, I was out of luck, because I'd never learned Morse Code for Assholes.

We have our whole lives to try and get a glimpse of what that could be, in our own life. It's so exciting.

Any Hamas or Zionist type who tries to interfere with the labor unions and grab the money will be marched to the guillotines and subsequently beheaded. And isn't that easier and more productive than some endless, bloody conflict? So sayeth the gospel of common sense. Happy Mother's Day.

I try to tell people to keep having hope. It's always what you don't know and don't expect that's gonna be so great.

I have a fierce eating disorder that has survived even bariatric surgery. I got even fatter after that! Hey, maybe fat people are just trying to get closer to others, did anybody ever that of that?!

I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes, you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California, I have to go to prison, don't I? I think you only get three.

You know what, when I was thin, I thought there was a fat girl trying to get out of me.

You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

Never try to make Americans or foreigners feel at home - had they wished to feel at home, they would have remained in their own county.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

The more readings a novel has, even contradictory, the better. In journalism, you talk about what you know; you have provided yourself with records, you have gathered information, you have performed interviews. In a novel, you talk about what you don't know, because the novel comes from the unconscious. They are very different relationships with words and with the world. In journalism, you talk about trees; in the novel, you try to talk about the forest.