I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It's going to happen when it's supposed to happen. I'm not rushing it. I'm not trying to make it happen tomorrow.
Did I try to embarrass other people? Now if it's about other people, guilty guilty guilty guilty.
All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.
Expect me to continue what I've been doing, which is trying to take over the world.
Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.
In terms of viewing the world in a certain way, when you're talking about monsters and talking about the metaphor that you're trying to create, as Black Americans, you oft times stand apart and you have to look at things from the inside out or the outside in.
I'm just trying to make a good record that my fans will dig.
If I continue to just get to the playoffs every year, I guess you could say I arrived, but right now I'm just trying to find my way.
I'm not trying to have my whole life out there in the media.
I know when somebody is trying to get something out of me for clicks. And sometimes I feel like giving it to them. Sometimes I feel like being real and open to them, but at the same time, I know how much I can give you.
With everything I do, I just try to be myself.
We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God's will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the misery of overspiritualizing every decision. Our misdirected piety makes following God more mysterious than it was meant to be
Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.
You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.
You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.
My first restoration was on Napoleon, trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.
The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so people who are trying to build new lives, trying to build a better life.
I'm over dudes trying to look like they're in boy bands.
What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.
I still make paintings and use the figure; it's hard to do and hard to succeed. On some levels, because I am working with black figures and black pigment, it's even harder because I have to be more responsible for the image. I try to be really careful about the presence the figure projects.
When you're on MTV Asia, you're like royalty. When you walk down the streets of the Philippines or Indonesia, everyone wants to try to touch you.
Cheryl [Hines] and I sat through two screenings at the Sundance Film Festival and during the second one, we said to each other: "You know, we don't have to get sad about this. Let's try to enjoy this. Let's just watch it. It's a happy movie [Waitress]."
Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.
Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the case that all such experiments are of equal merit or value. Some cultures - and modernity is patently one - have managed to transmute consciousness into the "disease" that Nietzsche called it, the self-affliction of a self-centeredness that has purged itself of all vestiges of wisdom and value.
Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to their own prejudices and preconceptions, which they are so rarely competent to look in the face.
