Trying Quotes
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You have to remember that for more than half my life - probably until my children were born - acting was everything to me. I was obsessed by it, and I spent so much time just trying to get to the point where I was being paid to do it. Literally, I spent every waking moment thinking about acting.
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As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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Depending on what you allow, you can still get the blues, man. I'm still trying to figure out where the blues really lies, where the street is.
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My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
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My father's a police officer, and he's told me numerous times about his training and how they've gone through what they call verbal judo, which is essentially them trying to de-escalate the situation.
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I'm just trying to get an exposure and make my day.
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I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.
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I'm just trying to get back to normal life.
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I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist, except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that down on canvas, if possible.
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As a woman, and as a working mom trying to get things done, you find yourself meeting adversity a lot, but you never talk about it because you don't want to bring attention to it. You don't want to go there.
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They're still in the game, and they're trying to get back into it.
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I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.
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In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.
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There's always so much music around me now, it seems like everything has to be something with music, so in my spare time I try not to listen to anything. It's so hard for me to listen to something without trying to see a benefit in it: 'Maybe I'll make my own version of that track or maybe I'll do this or that.'
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It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.
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I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.
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Staying on the path of who you are and not trying to be anyone else is the key to anything you're doing.
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I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.
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The process of starting up a new film is one of looking through a lot of material and trying to find something you really like. And it does sometimes take a minute.
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At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
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It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.
