Trying Quotes - Page 8

• There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)
  A good novel editor is invisible.

  Terri Windling

  Book, Editors, Vision

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• I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

  Laurie Anderson

  Kind, Forget, Compliment

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• You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

  Laurie Anderson

  Being Sad, Needs, Masters

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• I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Voice, Giving, Photographer

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• Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.

  Brené Brown

  Perfect, Want, Stop Trying

  "Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect" By Brené Brown, www.cnn.com.

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• I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity, to name a few.

  Brené Brown

  Creativity, Black And White, Love Is

  "Living Brave". Interview with Mary Sykes Wylie, Rich Simon, www.psychotherapynetworker.org. September, 2016.

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• Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

  Alberto Moravia

  Perfect, Problem, Born

  "The New Yorker" Interview, May 7, 1955.

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• It's one thing to be helpless as one tries to lace a corset or to mount an elephant, quite another to be helpless as a bandit pushes a black steel knife against the flesh of your throat while his brother comes to join him.

  John Speed

  Brother, Knives, Elephants

  John Speed (2007). “The Temple Dancer: A Novel of India”, p.86, Macmillan

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• We have to try to beat Everyone.

  Alex Ferguson

  Beats

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• We got anxious at the end of the weekend in our urgency to try to score the winning goal. Ended up playing far too many long balls forward. That style of play doesn't suit Manchester United. We must continue to play football and enjoy the game. If we do that, eventually things will come right for us.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Weekend, Winning

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• I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.

  Sean Paul

  Skills, Careers, Style

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That’s basically it. I’m not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I’m just reflecting on life.

  Sean Paul

  Growing Up, Who I Am, Prophet

  "Reasoning with Sean Paul". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. October 1, 2002.

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• [On] 'Sufferer,' I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: 'I know you a sufferer, but it doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't expect any better.' It's a lot different than from what I usually say, like, 'Get busy, shake that thing.'

  Sean Paul

  Mean, Gun, Talking

  "Sean Paul Hopes To Curb Youth Violence In Jamaica With Next Lp" by Jayson Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. Janaury 22, 2007.

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• I knew damn well I would never be a movie star. It's too hard; and if you are intelligent, it's too embarrassing. My complexes aren't inferior enough: being a movie star and having a big fat ego are supposed to go hand-in-hand; actually, it's essential not to have any ego at all. I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try and get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego, tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.

  Holly Golightly

  Morning, Stars, Mean

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• I remember the special quiet of rainy days
  when I felt that I could enter the pages
  of my beautiful picture books.
  Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing
  that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists.
  The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope
  others as well, that such places might be real.

  Jan Brett

  Beautiful, Real, Book

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• Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream.
  I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be?
  So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you.
  Should've known you'd bring me heartache.
  Almost lovers always do.

  A Fine Frenzy

  Goodbye, Dream, Thinking

  Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

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• I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.

  Stephan Jenkins

  People, Misfits, Fixers

  "He can see clearly now / Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins looks at success, love, creativity" by Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2003.

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• I think it's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted. I'd say, even at this late date, they should just cancel it and do a do over. Just say, 'This was a horrible disaster and we're sorry and we're going to stop selling this and stop trying to convince people to develop for it'.

  Gabe Newell

  Sorry, Thinking, People

  "Internet news gatherers savour PS3 gloom" by Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2007.

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• I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

  Al Purdy

  Atheism, Unhappy, World

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• I am grateful for the support of those who want to see more women in Congress to better represent our country and provide leadership and solutions to DC. Ron Barber has been asleep at the switch on issues that are extremely important to Southern Arizona, such as fighting for the A-10 and Davis-Monthan. That is why Nancy Pelosi is stepping in to try to save his job in November. Sometimes the best man for the job is a woman that is why I fully intend on replacing Congressman Barber on Election Day.

  Martha McSally

  Country, Jobs, Grateful

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• We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Ignorance, Years, Thousand

  "'Penn&Teller: Bullshit' ('Abstinence')". Comedy, Documentary, June 05, 2006.

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• I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.

  Sam Raimi

  Character, Scary, Different

  "SXSW 09: Sam Raimi Q&A". Interview with Chris Tilly, www.ign.com. March 16, 2009.

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• My advice is precisely the advice my mother gave me. If you believe you have talent, the next thing you must have is determination. If you keep working, keep striving, and try always to move forward a little bit with every job you do, you'll eventually make it. And I believe that!

  Cass Elliot

  Mother, Determination, Jobs

  "Twenty Questions for Mama Cass" by Frederick Todd in American Girl magazine, June 1970.

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• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Ifs, I Can

  "Writers at Work 08: The Paris Review Interviews". Book by George Plimpton and Joyce Carol Oates, 1988.

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• We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that is, having to do with the conduct of life. We are still beginners, and for that reason may hope to improve. To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind. There is no need to be dismayed by the fact that we cannot yet envisage a definitive solution of our problems, a resting-place beyond which we need not try to go.

  Peter Medawar

  Political, Mind, Progress

  Presidential Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Exeter, September 3, 1969.

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