I think that most actors, and they’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
I remember, in school during English lessons, I would ask the teacher what were the most difficult books to read, and when she’d say ‘Ulysses’ or something, I’d run off to the library to check out a copy, eager to attempt the most difficult mountain.
I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.
As far as ‘Birdsong’ is concerned, I think the television program made a very honorable attempt at it, but the truth of the matter is that adaptations of long, ambitious books very seldom transfer well to the screen, and why would they?
The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don’t know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.
I fear it’s because religion is man’s attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else’s claim to have done the same.
Aame’ is a new attempt. The entire film was shot using live sound technique.
The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.
I’ve made a lifelong attempt to involve myself deeper and deeper in my medium.
You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.
True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.
Film directing is really undermined if you attempt to do it by committee because there has to be a single vision as to how to tell a story. It’s like if you were at a campfire, and everyone is taking turns to give one sentence in telling a horror story. It would be a mess – it’s not going to make sense.
When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong.
You can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and that’s what I attempt to do.
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
Special counsel Robert Mueller, investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, provided ample evidence that the president should be investigated for obstruction of justice in his attempt to quell the Russia investigation by firing Comey and urging aides to lie.
I don’t think perfection is possible. I think you can attempt to reach perfection, but I don’t think it’s a possible thing. I think perfection is a moving point, and we spend our artistic lives chasing it.
I never got into ‘Star Wars.’ Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.
In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.
I don’t think any government is going to go back on the reforms process. There is no government that won’t attempt to get people to come and manufacture in India.
I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what’s on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, ‘What’s the matter with you?’ But I haven’t ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don’t really worry about it. If it’s funny, I don’t care.
I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It’s wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don’t realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.
I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama’s boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
There’s a total separation between the federal government and the people. So running for president was an attempt on my part to get people to care enough to go vote. But people just don’t bother. And that’s why it’s not working.
Fukrey’ was my first attempt at comedy.
This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Islam’s basic principles of belief, worship, morality, and behavior are not affected by changing times. Islam does not propose a certain unchangeable form of government or attempt to shape it. Islam has never offered nor established a theocracy in its name.
Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.
When I was about 15… I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
‘Deer Hunter’ is a movie; it is not an attempt to write history.
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
PC Music is a really post-modern attempt at pop.
On bikeback, there is a delightful sense of self-direction and autonomy. Lately, I have taken to cycling slowly, more fun than the fast, competitive commuter cycling I used to do. No longer do I jump lights or attempt that irritating wobbling thing that semi-professional cyclists like to indulge in.
I think ‘Never Land’ is, like, my first really strong attempt to create music… that can encourage people who share my faith but also challenge and intrigue people who don’t.
Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage – as soon as you even attempt to engage.
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless ‘neo-Victorian’ novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.
All of audio as we know it is an attempt to be more and more perfectly linear. Linearity means higher quality sound. Hypersonic sound is exactly the opposite: it’s 100 percent based on non-linearity.
Sitting on public transport is an occasionally exasperating experience if you have the temerity to attempt travelling while female.
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.
The cinematography and the conditions in which ‘Meru’ was filmed drew me to the project. It’s remarkable to think that everything in the film is real; these three men set out to attempt this impossible climb and to film it at the same time.
When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista’s government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti.
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing’s so hard but search will find it out.
Whoever makes an attempt on a man’s life, on a man’s liberty, on a man’s honour inspires us with a feeling of horror in every way analogous to that which the believer experiences when he sees his idol profaned.
Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.
After learning of a failed attempt to hack the state’s online voter registration and My Voter Page, my office contacted the Department of Homeland Security and opened an investigation.
I’d rather attempt something I’m not sure I can do.
‘In My Hands,’ the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I’m not a singer as such. But I’ve always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don’t really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.
The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.
