Trying Quotes
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I want people to see an honesty within me. I'm not trying to be the next Sam Cooke or Otis Redding.
Leon Bridges -
Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.
Marc Maron
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It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
Ernest Hemingway -
But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.
Annia Ciezadlo -
I'm always going to want to be part of music. But who's to say? This whole thing for me in the first place just kind of happened without trying. I think about things like acting and all that, but I'm not going to force it on myself. I'm kind of shy, believe it or not.
Louise Harman -
There is a huge tension in trying to write with small children because they demand your attention and your time with a fierceness that can be matched by nothing else, but if you are successful in writing while you have small children, I actually think that your writing is likely to be deeper than it was before.
Alexi Zentner -
I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.
Ernest Hemingway -
I suppose what's so amazing about working at the National Theatre is that, because it's a subsidized theatre, you're not trying to create a product that's going to have a mass market in order to make the money back.
Marianne Elliott
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I had a Commodore, and then I remember getting a Nintendo for Christmas and it being a total game-changer. And the hours that I would spend playing the video game and trying to convince my mother that it was improving my hand-eye coordination. It was a worthy use of time. It made my hand-eye coordination better!
Lee Pace -
Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.
Payne Stewart -
I used to exercise an hour every day - no excuses. I live in absolutes: I either exercise every day, or I let myself off the hook. I'm trying to find that balance of working out three or four days a week and sticking to it.
Anna Kendrick -
It's just people trying to get on TV, not like it's really going to do them any good since people can just watch me.
Zach Braff -
You know that thing where you're trying to do the crossword puzzle, and you're trying to fit the word that's in your head in the puzzle, and then you go 'Ugh!' and you walk away, and then it comes to you. I'm interested in that moment. The release of expectation, and the release of pleasing yourself and pleasing anybody. Breaking the mindset.
Jeffrey Tambor -
I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.
Anderson Cooper
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I'm strong-willed, but that doesn't mean I can't work with people if we're all in the mission of trying to make a good movie.
Karyn Kusama -
Every boy grows up trying to be like his father, but what if a boy grows up to be like his mother?
Arjun Kapoor -
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
Sean Lennon -
You have to keep trying to get better.
Jon Gruden -
In trying times, Coloradans do what we always have done: pull together and get it done.
John Hickenlooper -
the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be in the still small voice. As we listen in silent meditation, God will be shouting protests in the street. God is warning us that we had best not try to find our security in any well-defined concept or category of what is Godly - for the minute we believe we are into God, God is off again and calling us forth into some unknown place.
Carter Heyward
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When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
One sad consequence of this is that people don't feel permitted to try understand Internet infrastructure, so I'm really grateful to groups like Free Press and other nonprofits who are trying to make the issue urgent and comprehensible. And Andre Blum's book Tubes is great on this topic.
Astra Taylor -
I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.
Amanda Lee Williford -
I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing.
Jon Pardi