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Trying Quotes


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


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


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


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



"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."


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



"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."


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



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


"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."


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



"I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am."


"I don't think anybody is wanting to put me back on the air. But I'm certainly out there trying."


"I know that I've overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I'm exhausted."


"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."


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


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


"One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools."


"You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But we're trying to get a lot of particles because experimental physicists have discovered a lot of particles."



"If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run."


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



"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."


"I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately."


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


"One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories."


"Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them."


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


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


"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."


"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."


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


"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."
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