Trying Quotes

• We're really trying to make movies for TV. Producers and writers are taking risks that they weren't in the past.

  

  Philip Winchester
  • Trying
  • Past

• Actual patriotism has to do with loving a place enough to try and improve it.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Trying
  • Enough

• People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.

  

  Anita Desai
  • People
  • Trying

• You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Interesting
  • Play
  • Player

• 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

• Being poor sucks... It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi
  • Universe
  • Sleep
  • Girlfriend

• A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Power
  • Flower
  • Atheist

• Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.

  

  Leah Remini
  • Trying
  • Focus

• Im always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in El Gringo; it shows in the new Universal Soldier. You cant rest on your laurels; youve got to keep improving.

  

  Scott Adkins
  • Thinking
  • Actors
  • Shows

• 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.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Work
  • Different
  • Trying

• Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.

  

  Denise Mina
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Character

• No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
  • Trying
  • Environment

• The people that have looked out for me and helped to steer me in the right direction, I just can't thank them enough. So, the drive, a lot of times it just comes down to looking around at the people who love and believe in you and realizing that you owe it to them. Even if I have a bad attitude on a certain occasion, I owe it to all these people around me to just come out and drive, push, and try to make this thing the best that I can

  

  Cody Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Attitude

• If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Song

• Arguing with reality is like trying to teach a cat to bark-hopeless.

  

  Byron Katie
  • Trying
  • Reality
  • Cat

• I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it - I think that's important.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • People
  • God
  • Important

• You can't go into new life experiences without the understanding that yeah, you may fail, but knowing you might fail can't stop you from trying.

  

  Alice Dreger
  • Life
  • May
  • Stop

• Whenever people are trying to give you money, and you're like, 'No! Don't,' you have to stop and consider, what am I saying no to?

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • People
  • Money
  • Stop

• We want to make the best television possible. We should be drawing on the entire available pool of storytellers and directors, and we should be expanding that pool and trying to hire the very, very, very best people. That's our job.

  

  John Landgraf
  • People
  • Job
  • Drawing

• The difference between a regular camera and a 3D camera, for an actor, is really no different except that the turn-arounds are longer. It takes a lot longer to set up a shot because the cinematographer is really trying to set up a whole world, so it can't be more intricate and more beautiful to the viewers, in 3D.

  

  Chris Zylka
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• When I was trying to find work after drama school in London, it felt like the same actors always got the plum roles, especially in television. We have a smaller market place, vastly fewer drama-producing networks, and they seem to compete for the same established names for those projects.

  

  Jamie Bamber
  • Work
  • School
  • Drama

• The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Failure

• Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Boy

• People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

  

  Cory Booker
  • People
  • Simplistic
  • Dialectics

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