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By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.


Jo Brand


#bit #crying #drinking #feeling #honest

'The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative.


Jane Campion


#adult #attempted #big #complex #easily

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.


Richard Ernst


#anyway #artist #attempted #balancing #believe

The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.


Akhmad Kadyrov


#against #assassinations #attempted #me #were

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.


Herman Kahn


#attention #avoid #book #consequences #coping

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.


Evelyn Underhill


#cold #constantly #coolness #could #difficult

I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.


Gerald McRaney


#ahead #change #committing #enjoy #five

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.


Gilbert Parker


#doing #falling #tempted #virtue #want

Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.


Bob Parsons


#attempted #because #does #doing #first

The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.


Madeleine Stowe


#away #dead #felt #first #forced