Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.
I watch basketball all day every day. So when I'm watching the games, I watch it - I just enjoy watching basketball - but when I'm watching other people play, I'm really just watching as a student trying to figure different things out.
The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.
I think my sensibilities about storytelling and character just automatically come into play when I'm trying to work on any kind of narrative. For me, it doesn't really matter what the source of the narrative is. I will be looking for ways to make it into an intriguing story with empathetic characters.
I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.
No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.
Having 'The Expats' not be 'wholesale-y' rejected by the world made it possible for me to write the second book and have a publisher buy it before it was entirely written. And it made it easier for me and my publisher to get 'The Accident' out into the world without trying to convince people to pay attention to it the way you do for a first novel.
I know that I've overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I'm exhausted.
I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.
That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction. That's what takes people out of the fight half the time.
I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up. The fun is not that much different from doing a television show: You're stuck with a certain set of rules, and then, rather than trying to break them, it's just trying to peel away and see what's underneath them. That to me is really fun.
I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.
I was so young when I started, my taste has changed and developed, and I've gone from being a little bit safe to trying different things.
The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.
My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby. We tried a bunch of things - so we had a surrogate.
Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.
Because I was a champion swimmer in Canada, they're always trying to get me in the water in movies! I've drawn the line now with this film. No more water!
If you don't have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you won't reach them or will quit trying.
It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.
I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.
I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.
What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.
I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do.
I'm glad I made business investments, because it gave me the confidence financially to make brave choices. If I hadn't done that, I'd still have been trying to play 19-year-olds in films. I know there are other avenues for me.
That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo.
I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.
I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.
I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.
Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?
I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, 'What the hell!' and did something crazy.
I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.
I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.
