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Trying Quotes


"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 feel more confident about what we're doing as a band and what we're trying to do as a band and the way we're looking at it as a band."


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


"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."


"Oh, who am I trying to kid? It's a madhouse. The minute those cameras go off, things just explode, everyone is just at each other in one way or another, in closets or cat fights here and there. It's nuts. You know, I can't be a part of it."


"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 trying to sell every audience something; that something is me."


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


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


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


"Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture."


"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 like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth."


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


"You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do."


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


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


"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."


"As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody."


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


"I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it."


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


"Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show."


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


"While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong."


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


"My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size."


"I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years."


"I think he was trying to produce more of a... sort of a cheaper image."


"I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best."


"I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!"


"Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?"


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


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


"We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be."
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