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Trying Quotes


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


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


"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."


"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."


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


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


"We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues."


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


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


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


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


"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."


"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 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 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."
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