Trying Quotes

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

For me, running for office is never about trying to destroy an opponent, be it Democratic or Republican. It really ought to be about how can we solve some problems that we're facing.

Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.

The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

If you're an unattractive girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you are a beautiful girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, you will look like you're angry all the time.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument.

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.

The joy of songwriting only gets messed up if you are trying to follow up a big success, or you are trying to create a hit single, or if you have conscious thoughts of a particular outcome for the music.

Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

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

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

With some other top players I'm part of a company trying to put on events in Europe, especially Germany, but also Poland, Austria, Russia. There's so much talent coming out of the Far East now, and we want the same thing in Europe.

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

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.

I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.

You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff.

I'm over dudes trying to look like they're in boy bands.