Cat Power Quotes

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

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• Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Bad

• I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Deep

• I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Mistake
  • Better
  • Classic

• I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Trying
  • Change
  • Grow

• I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Taken

• Trying to command life without studying one's own mind is like trying to play the piano without studying music.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Music
  • Mind

• My will, my faith and my body have been challenged, but make no mistake, my heart is strong and my resolve to fight will never be broken.

  

  Anastacia
  • Heart
  • Strong
  • Faith

• 'Troublemaker' is not an adaptation of 'Metro Girl' or 'Motor Mouth.' It is an original story. The hardest part was probably trying to keep the sound true to the novels. I always write in first person, and it was important to us that the readers of 'Metro' and 'Motor' be comfortable with the change over to a graphic novel.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Important
  • Trying
  • True

• President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.

  

  Andrea Jung
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Future

• It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

  

  Jacqueline Carey
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Funny

• While you're going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you're having fun, you'll find you are having fun.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Good
  • Work
  • Trying

• I don't have any horror stories of trying to start as a comedian and eating it constantly on stage.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Trying

• Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese gooseberry, after all - at least until the produce peddlers wised up - and the Chilean sea bass was once the singularly unappetizing Patagonian toothfish.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Up
  • Long
  • Trying

• There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
  • Trying
  • Beautiful

• The first Elizabeth film was an absolute travesty historically. It really was sloppy. Things like 'The Other Boleyn Girl' and 'The Tudors,' people's perception is distorted because of these. It matters to me as a historian, because I spend my life trying to get it right.

  

  Alison Weir
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• Some people would look at a backing track as something that would confine you, but it really frees us up. It's nice not to be strapped down to a certain spot when you're trying to put on a show.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I've been in a long-term relationship, and I'll tell you, it's never boring! People trying to merge their lives together always run into challenges.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Trying

• I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square.

  

  Mathias Rust
  • Trying
  • Red
  • Bridge

• And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Challenges
  • Environmental

• People love fast. When you're fast people think you're smart, think your products are of higher quality, think your management is of higher quality, think that you're worth more and they're willing to pay more money for it. So, I'm really big into speed.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Money

• The more I sought truth uncorrupted by years of religious history, the more I kept finding answers I didn’t want to find. Emotionally, it would have been easiest for me to just hold on to what I grew up believing, but mentally that wasn’t an option anymore.

  

  Timothy Peter Lambesis As I Lay Dying
  • Believe
  • Religious
  • Answers

• When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma.

  

  Jack Black
  • Kids
  • Power
  • Think

• That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Death
  • Nation
  • Pillow

• We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

  

  Cat Power
  • Trying
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  • Persons