Trying Quotes
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Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
Stanley Kubrick
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But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.
Seth Godin
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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
Seth Godin
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I think the Russians are trying to figure out what to do. I don't think they know what to do with our president Donald Trump. I don't think they know what to do with the situation. They've been isolated when it comes to Syria and they're trying to figure out what their place in the world is going to be.
Nikki Haley
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When I finished writing it, I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.
Ray Bradbury
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Try to get your characters into interesting trouble. Allow your characters to misbehave. Let them stay out after 11.
Charles Baxter
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I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier.
Stephen Merchant
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I wanna try and stay a student for life.
Mike Watt
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It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen.
Ray Bradbury
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You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.
Roger Federer
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What I try to encourage individuals to do is don't sweat the small stuff, sweat the big stuff.
Chip Giller
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Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.
Eriq La Salle
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Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!
Steven Tyler Aerosmith
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If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
Stephen Sondheim
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I don't even blame pseudo-refugees for trying to have a better life in Holland. I blame our government for allowing it to happen; for not saying 'enough is enough you are not a refugee', we have to defend our own country and close our borders.
Geert Wilders
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When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
William Jennings Bryan
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Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.
Thomas Harris
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...if you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.
Sara Gruen
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While everybody is trying to be different, everybody becomes, obviously, the same, so it's finding what makes you special and then kind of sharing it with the world; it's what makes you a superstar.
Ryan Guzman
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.
Michael Caine
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Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.
Alfie Kohn
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We, or I, cannot monitor everyone all of the time. If people want to do wrong, they will also try to hide it.
Sepp Blatter
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Nick? Nick Hurley?" I asked, laughing. He took back his hat. "You'll be sorry to hear I don't make gross faces as much as I used to. Now I'd rather smile at girls." "I noticed" He waved his hat around as if he was trying to dry it, his green eyes sparkling at me, as full of fun and trouble as when he was in elementary school. I realxed.
Elizabeth Chandler
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I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that my intentions always began in a pure way. I really want to just try and play the songs.
Ryan Adams