Trying Quotes
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I'm trying to make work that is reflective and is encouraging of reflection.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be a better behaved girl, I shut the book.
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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
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In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.
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I wasn't trying to fit into a thing... it was not like I was like, 'Right, I'm the Han; I'm the Leia; I'm the Luke.' I was just like, 'Okay, I'm Rey, just trying to do me, just trying to do this scene, trying to do the right thing,' and I think that was a huge advantage because I think if not, it would've been a very different thing.
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I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.
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My arm is real tired because my hand has been extended for six months. Two weeks ago I said that Wilkinson was trying to drive a wedge in our relationship, now this has driven a stake into my heart.
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I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.
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There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.
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It's good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. That's great because it inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways - with money or with different things that are not true happiness.
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We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
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The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.
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I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.
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Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
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I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.
Mark Spitz
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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Hillary Clinton was trying to encourage us to become more active in politics and she said, 'If you leave all the decision-making to others, you might not like what they do, and you will have no one but yourself to blame.' It was such a challenge to the women in the room. And it really hit me: She’s talking to me.
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I'm trying to do big things. It doesn't matter whether it's on the field or off the field.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
