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The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
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I just try to take it as it comes. One autograph at a time.

– Kristanna Loken

I don’t do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.

– Kathryn Bigelow

I don’t try to be bad as much as I just am by nature.

– Marilyn Manson

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I wander around, get the lay of the land and try to imagine what kind of people would have lived there in that historical period. What would they eat? What kind of clothing would they wear? How did they shelter themselves? How did they get around?

– James Welch

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

– Lucy Liu

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

– Lili Taylor

I was always really shy so I’d never try to get a guy’s attention.

– Kim Kardashian

I actually always try to not do a general American accent. I always try to give a region.

– Janet Montgomery

I try not to be too judgmental.

– Louis Theroux

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

– Leonard Cohen

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

– Laurie Anderson

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren’t.

– Penelope Spheeris

Always I was dreaming of a record contract. From 10 to 13, it was all I could think of. I worked hard for this dream. Nobody could say I didn’t try.

– Shakira

I always try to make sure that I stay connected to theater so I continue to be inspired. Not that I’m not inspired by television.

– Rutina Wesley

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

– Salman Rushdie

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

– Rick Baker

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

– Sheryl Crow

I try to avoid giving advice.

– Scott Adams

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

– Salvador Dali

I try not to look for messages in films.

– Robert Duvall

Sen. Robert Menendez’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 would try to nullify every single state and local law that fights illegal immigration. Congressman Luis Gutierrez’s CIR ASAP Act with over 100 Democratic co-sponsors does the same thing.

– Russell Pearce

When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn’t any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena.

– Richard P. Feynman

Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.

– Paul Weyrich

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond – had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

– Paul Muldoon

If it’s a very emotional scene, you’re kind of relieved when you’ve done it, kind of spent. And there are times when you can be rattled, certain characters if they’re hyper, that can carry over, the residue of that. But I try to leave it on the set.

– Robert De Niro

People, when they go on stage, tend to be animated and try to force things out instead of relaxing and bringing it in.

– Ron White

A lot of what I do – I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.

– Rory Bremner

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents’ farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

– Odette Annable

I try to tell the story, always. I do not want to be part of it.

– Robin Leach

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