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Trying Quotes


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


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


"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."


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


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


"Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished."


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


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


"I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying."


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


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


"I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did."


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


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


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


"Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out."


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


"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can."


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


"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."


"I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record."


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


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


"I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it."


"I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before."


"I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself."


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


"I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do."


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


"We moved to Australia for two years though and that was a little bit tough trying to fit in."


"They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind."
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