Trying Quotes
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Actually, it's great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions.
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Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.
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Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn't trying to kill her.
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I'm just a young girl trying to fulfill the purpose that's been placed in my heart to do.
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I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio.
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Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard.
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I've just grown into not having to care so much and to not try to think that I'm going to be able to plan out the way that everyone perceives me. There are no false impressions. Everyone's impression of you is going to be what it is in that isolated moment.
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Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.
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If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they had to say about Ronald Reagan when he first came in and was trying to change our approach to government, that elicited huge responses.
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Trends come and go, and if you try to latch onto a trend it will likely be passé by the time you have completed your manuscript.
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The only thing I can count on daily is the unexpected. I usually try to start my day with a run before I even turn on my computer and clog my head with things to be done.
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Any show that has a completely gay ensemble has the very difficult task of trying to represent the community.
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Small ball, spacing, shooting 3s, is something that everybody's trying to do.
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I have much respect for the people that I work with, and it's reciprocal. My shoots are always very calm. Everyone has their work to do, and we try to respect everyone's work and give them the time necessary. There's never any tension. That's something that helps to attain the simplicity that I'm looking for.
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I'm really interested in trying to learn how to play the guitar since I've got two of them! I can kind of mess around on the piano, but I'm going to start learning how to play the guitar.
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The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once — figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read — is the cause of writer’s block.
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Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.
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My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.
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I just have to live my truth and know that it's okay to rock on my own vibration, because I'm me. I try to stand by that code, especially as a young Black woman in this industry. I try to walk the walk and talk the talk.
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We couldn't overcome a tough shooting game for Kobe. They threw an extra man at him, and we didn't make good adjustments. Offensively, I don't think we grasped the concepts of what we are trying to do here.
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To think in terms of what the effect of a story is going to be, as opposed to trying to discover its inner logic, is one of the fundamental dangers in the process.
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Empathy for women is an attribute of masculinity. When men play the protector role they are trying to save a woman from grief or pain. If they had no glimpse of her grief or pain, they wouldn’t know when to protect.
