Trying Quotes

• The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Hours

• I was so fanatical about trying to save wildlife... I was unable to accept that we couldn't solve this problem of thousands of years, of wherever humans operated, the environment deteriorated.

  

  Allan Savory
  • Trying
  • Environment

• I'm aware of what my effect on the populous could be, and I try to use it in a positive way, whether it be in an Instagram post or a tweet, or promoting whatever new job that I have. I don't figure too much as a Latino man coming up, or a certain ethnic man. I'm very, very proud of being a Mexican-American man, but I would rather people just see me as a man coming up who just happens to be Mexican.

  

  Ryan Guzman
  • Job
  • Proud
  • Tweet

• There are countless times where you're trying to channel somebody who's not there, but that's what you have to do. But Audrey Geisel, who has executive produced this film and Horton, and who works remarkably close with me, is a great source of information. (The Simpsons creator) Matt Groening once told me that one of the most important roles that he fulfills on The Simpsons is being the keeper of the integrity of the original vision.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Important
  • Film
  • Vision

• I'm just trying to be the best basketball player, the best student, the best son, friend, etcetera. I'm just trying to get better in every facet.

  

  Jaylen Brown
  • Friend
  • Player
  • Son

• I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things. For me, I just love to work and I love movies.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Work
  • Different
  • Trying

• I knew that the right person for Crossroads would come along if we were just patient and made sure that we didn't try to force anything.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Trying
  • Patient
  • Crossroads

• I haven't read a lot of science fiction, and I never intend to write it; it seems to happen a little bit inadvertently for me, in that I'm trying to follow people into points in their lives that demand that I investigate the future.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • People
  • Future
  • Science

• I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Life
  • Enough
  • Figures

• I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Important
  • Country
  • Mind

• I suppose I'm very aware of time and of memories and of enjoying life... not just doing the right thing and being a useful person, which I certainly wanna be and believe that I am. I hold onto my family really tight and try to be as good a woman as I can be in my life.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Long distance information, give me Memphis Tennessee Help me find the party trying to get in touch with me She could not leave her number, but I know who placed the call 'Cause my uncle took the message and he wrote it on the wall

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Long
  • She
  • Help

• It's a weird business. You're trying to write something that's built on magic, which is pretty stressful.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Weird

• I went from off-off Broadway. I would direct plays in Baldwin Hills. Almost Tyler Perry-like, really trying to express myself in that and not really knowing how to, knowing acting in story, but not really knowing how to technically hold a camera.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Trying

• Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

  

  Caroline Shaw
  • Trying
  • City

• I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.

  

  Yasmin Paige
  • Trying

• Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

  

  David Selby
  • Trying
  • Remember

• My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying to write such a book.

  

  James Salter
  • Book
  • Perfect
  • Joy

• We can't shame women for trying to be beautiful. That's so mean and unfair. But there's a part of me that thinks it's really sad, too. It's very complicated.

  

  Marilyn Minter
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Sad

• I can tell when I've met a bad journalist when they say, "I've met Madonna," or "I know Marilyn Manson." Because I haven't met anyone I've ever interviewed. I've sat down in the position of an interviewer, and they've sat down in the position of an artist trying to promote a product. We have no relationship. I'm able to ask them questions I'd never be allowed to ask them if we were casual friends. It's a completely constructed kind of situation.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Relationship

• My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • World
  • Trying

• I never learn. Like a waitress will bring my meal. Hey, enjoy your meal. You, too. But you don't have one, do ya? I'm a dufus. If you do eat enjoy it when you eat it if you have a break or something, later. If you get an opportunity. That's all I'm trying to say.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Opportunity
  • Enjoy
  • Break

• The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Actor
  • Successful
  • Trap

• My family will be disappointed only if I'm disappointed, and hopefully that won't be the case. I'm trying to view the Olympics like any other race and I think the London course will suit my style.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Style

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