Trying Quotes

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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness. — Harlan Coben
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. — Leonard Cohen
The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the… — Harlan Coben
The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on… — Harlan Coben
If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that… — Bruce Cockburn
I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way. — Jarvis Cocker
I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks… — Jarvis Cocker
Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long… — Jarvis Cocker
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. — Jean Cocteau
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. — Jean Cocteau
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If… — Jean Cocteau
I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl… — Diablo Cody
I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I… — Diablo Cody
One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know… — Diablo Cody
Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way. — Paulo Coelho
When I was a 21-year-old intern at CBS, I was told I had crossed eyes and shouldn't try to be on air. That's when I… — Andy Cohen
Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are… — Leonard Cohen
It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting,… — Summer Altice
Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds… — Tori Amos
There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody… — Tori Amos

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