#try

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go. ↗

— Yao Ming

#going #just #language #learn #let go

When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#british #case #chair #exists #film

I've been doing everything I can to reach out and understand why people voted against me. They were trying to send a message. I have to be more sensitive in the way I express myself, and I have to be more thoughtful in the positions I take. ↗

— James P. Moran

#been #doing #everything #express #i

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#different #first #more #performance #poetry

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#brushes #force #frustrated #getting #go

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#any #been #better #catch #country

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying. ↗

— Robert Mitchum

#just #people #pleasing #some #some people

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in. ↗

— Robert Mitchum

#hell #hold #i #interesting #just

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#best #father #good #good husband #great

I haven't had to do too many, or many explicit ones. Everybody feels weird, and everybody is trying to tiptoe around and make you think they're not there. The last time I did a love scene, I couldn't keep a straight face. ↗

— Gretchen Mol

#did #everybody #explicit #face #feels