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You have to work and think about how we can make this world a better place for all. This is what I'd really like to… — Ban Ki-moon
It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights - all those things… — Daryl Hannah
That's the nature of the intelligence business. You have to work with what you can get your hands on, but it is.. and in fact… — Dick Cheney
As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the… — Jim Cramer
You just have to be opportunistic, and try to figure out what creates value.. where the bottom is, what creates incremental value, and in what… — John C. Malone
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I… — John D. MacDonald
If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want… — Andrei Tarkovsky
In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards, nasty, twisted, deeply… — George R. R. Martin
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself. — John Steinbeck
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about… — David Foster Wallace
Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to… — Iain Banks
Don't try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood to read. Editors… — William Zinsser
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself,… — William Faulkner
Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even… — Stephen King
Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through… — Darcy O'Brien
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others,… — Flannery O'Connor
Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is… — Richard North Patterson
[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his work… — Lawrence Clark Powell
If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another. — Stanley Unwin
I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair,… — Tennessee Williams

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