Trying Quotes
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I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying.
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If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.
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I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.
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When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.
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I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.
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Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat!
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If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.
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I'm not trying to be an inspiration, but I'm flattered to be considered one.
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I'm not trying to make myself look like a girl because I'm not a girl anymore. I'm very happy about being a grown woman.
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It's like how science fiction in the '50s was a way of talking about war without actually having to risk any political capital. The obvious metaphor is power and powerlessness, but I also think it's a way of experimenting with dangerous feelings in a safe arena and trying things out.
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'A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.'
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Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they would not be alike. It is done to perpetuate similarity. Oh, Henderson, man cannot keep still under the blows.... A hit B? B hit C?--we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him. He shall keep the blow. No man shall get it from him, and that is a sublime ambition.
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One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.
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It's to try to spread the Word of God - the true meaning of Christmas. And that is more important than anything else.
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As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia.
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To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.
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Like I said, you guys in the media will treat the dumbest jack**s in the entire f***ng world like they won a Pulitzer prize for journalism and will put that level of weight on it, like they're an ambassador to some country we're trying to establish trade with.
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I've been on a lot of shows that I like, doing guest appearances and little things. I'm just trying to have fun with being retired.
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Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
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We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.
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Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball.
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I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.
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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
