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Trying Quotes


"I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned."



"I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!"


"The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart."


"Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it."


"I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet."


"What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together."


"I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around."


"I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious."


"I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words."


"We're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of."


"I gotta get working, you know? I've been too busy. I've been trying my hardest, but it's really tough."


"Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes."



"All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me."


"All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room."


"I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better."



"I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there."


"Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in."


"It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline."


"I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once."


"Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you."


"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true."


"Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying."


"You know, I like playing around with my voice and trying all different types of kooky voices."


"Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere."


"I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here."


"On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture."



"I'd read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part. Here's this guy who seems to be the embodiment of every single perfect guy."


"It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be."


"I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing."



"But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us."


"We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously."


"I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about."


"What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy."


"I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own."



"I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen."



"I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it."


"I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing."


"No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form."
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