Trying Quotes
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I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.
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I don't see masses, I don't see it like, oh there's hundreds of people here and I'm overwhelmed. I just try to think, well I could be a kid in that crowd, or my daughters could be in that crowd, and no one wants to feel like they're just part of the masses.
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If I start trying to make a record for what I think could possibly get played on radio, I'm dead.
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My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.
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When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant.
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Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.
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All I'm really good at is making music and singing and doing this. I'm not good at fashion, so I don't see a point in trying to be good at that.
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You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon.
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I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.
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I'm worried about doing my best, playing to my potential, helping out my teammates, and trying to win games for the Giants.
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I'm trying to escape the shackles of a pen and a pad. I've sat in sessions with Jay-Z where he doesn't write anything down. He'll come up with the most incredible triple entendre, all in his head - it's amazing.
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Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: 'I know what Anne or John is trying to do.'
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I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.
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The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.
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A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
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I just don't like showing everything I've got. I don't want to look like I'm trying too hard to be sexy.
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Trying to look cool and lovely in comedy is a recipe for disaster. You have to let go.
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Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.
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By trying to advance the perfect conservative solution, nobody wins.
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The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.
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No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
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I grew up as a step-kid, always a little outside, always trying hard to follow and fit in. But over time, I've come to feel that my tendency toward self-erasure is a deep and real part of me. I think I'd be this way no matter how I grew up.
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If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.
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I always had a problem when someone was trying to place sport in social and political context. Sport is a separate and unique kind of human activity, which functions under its own rules and principles. It has nothing to do with the political agenda, and neither it should. When politics interferes with sport, unjust things happen.
