Adam Ross Quotes, Character Quotes, Trying Quotes

By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment? Each story in the collection tries to wrestle with these questions.

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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

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Before you quit, you have to try

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I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

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critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

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Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.

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But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

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Sometimes I think God is trying to test me, both now and in the future. I'll have to become a good person on my own, without anyone to serve as a model or advise me, but it'll make me stronger in the end.

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Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!

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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

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It's time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be.

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I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

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The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

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I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

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I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

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In trying to be concise I become obscure.

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I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

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I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.

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It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

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If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.

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