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

• Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

  

  Bill Condon
  • Trying
  • Culture
  • Study

• 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

• I think in any industry, it is competitive. There are a certain number of slots out there and opportunities out there. So you need to make sure that you're always on the top of your toes, trying to get better.

  

  Dominique Dawes
  • Trying

• 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

• We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

  

  Hawa Abdi
  • Trying
  • Community
  • Leader

• I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • People
  • Time
  • Progress

• I've never been good with deadlines. My early novels, I wrote by myself. No one knew I was writing a novel; I didn't have a contract.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Good
  • Writing

• I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Life
  • Music

• And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Eternity
  • Despair
  • Activism

• 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
  • Mistake
  • Persons