Quotes by Trying Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion. Alan Arkin acting together trying The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa. Alan Ayckbourn light vices trying I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell. Alan Ball stories trying thinking Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful. Alan Ball maps trying long I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time. Alan Ball waste trying firsts Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains. Alan Bennett prayer trying mean One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them. Alan Bennett trying teacher boys If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted. Alan Blinder trying giving hands Habit is the best thing for you if you’re trying to write prose. Alan Cheuse habit writing trying Build your world around your dreams rather than trying to fit your dreams into the world you know. Alan Cohen dream trying world Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness. Alan Cohen medicine trying philosophy At this moment, life is trying to love you and give to you in a million wonderful ways. When you say Yes, you allow love to flow, which is the greatest gift you can give yourself and the universe . . . What do you want that you could be more open to receiving? Alan Cohen love-you trying giving I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles. Alan Cohen wall song trying I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don't want to keep making the same record over and over and over. I'm an 'evolve or die' kind of a musician. I think it's cool to try new things. Alan Cooper musician trying thinking Don't try to write to the trend of the moment. Alan Dean Foster trends writing trying I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible. Alan Dean Foster challenges trying I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year. Alan Dean Foster trying two years Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it. Alan Dershowitz balance trying character Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is. Alan Dershowitz truth-is democracy trying In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed. Alan Dundes genre students trying «1011121314151617181920»