Trying Quotes - Page 708

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

Watching people is a good hobby, but you have to be careful about it. You can’t let people catch you staring at them. If people catch you, they treat you like a first-class criminal. And maybe they’re right to do that. Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don’t want you to see.

I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.

I kind of - you learn it, you master it, and then you make sure that it just disappears. You know, like if I could have invisible lights, I would, and invisible cameras. I'm just really trying to get at my subject and I respect the technical aspect, but it is not anything that I think about at this point.

Some moments supersaturate, take on almost more than one tiny fragment of time can hold. How...can you hold this sort of memory of someone and at the same time just try to seem normally, regularly, pleased when she comes back to visit for a few days every few years?

I'm a working mother... You try to pay the bills, you try to keep your life going and there's pressure.

I just learn from other people. And I try to get strengths from other people and the things they do, the things they can overcome in their lives.

You know, Italian-Hungarian - no matter how linear and cool I look on the outside, I have all that energy trying to find its way through life.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

It's a frightening thing to act on your opinions. You've got to find confidence in yourself, not in what others think of you. I'm still trying to separate how I see myself from how I'm perceived. It's not easy, but it's worth it.

There are just so many options that people have. But as a writer, you'll drive yourself crazy, if you worry about that too much. People watch a lot of TV, so they think certain things are going to happen, and you're always trying to subvert expectations.

As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.

I'll try to do anything to win a game.

Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.

I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice.

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets hungry and goes to look for food. It gets frightened. Compared to other things in the universe, we and the albatrosses are almost identical.

Try to cut down drastically on plastic. Recycle. Use less energy and more renewable energy. We can all live better by doing better for ourselves and the sea!

I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.

I was trying to find ways of not being pigeon-holed like that. I didn't want to be tied down by my accent. I wanted to play Americans. I don't want to ever be doing the same thing twice, and I just didn't want to repeat myself.

I find listening to music in terms of influences, and trying to keep up with what's going on, is sickening! I mean, I'm not deliberately musically illiterate. But I have a pretty serendipitous approach to it.