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“I was trying to do like a spaghetti western but using World War II iconography.”

World Trying War Western War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Spaghetti Iconography Spaghetti Western

“I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice.”

Trying Easy Voice Natural Singing

Author:Carlisle Floyd

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

Trying Interesting Records

Author:Elliott Smith

“I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.”

Trying Stills Enjoy

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it, even I had trouble knowing it. So I told myself, over and over, You are in pain. It was the only way I could get through to myself. I was demonstrating externally and irrefutably an inward condition.”

Way Trying Pain Situation Knowing Trouble Conditions Over You Inward Demonstrating

Author:Susanna Kaysen

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.”

Ifs Knows Feels Trying Kind Mean Care School Hate Left I Hate Leaving Don't Care I Don't Care Goodbye Saying Goodbye Bye Good Bye Catchers Holden Holden Caulfield

Author:J. D. Salinger

“I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.”

World Trying Use Social Figures Skills Social Change

Author:Chris Hughes

“I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.”

Feels Trying Memories Figures Figure Skating

Author:Charlie Kaufman

“I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.”

People Trying Ideas Helping Use Next Figures Tools Productivity Software Organize Figure Skating

Author:Mitchell Kapor

“I was trying to figure out where my intellect, if I really have one, where it fit. And so I was searching. I really didn't know who I was or what I really wanted to be, and in that search, like I think you do as an actor, you end up trying to define whatever that is, and I sort of said, "Oh well, searching spiritually in a way is interesting, and Eastern religion seems to be about a search."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Trying Wells Said Ends Seems Wanted Actors Interesting Figures Fit Intellect Eastern Oh Well

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“I was trying to find a new home in the world.”

World Trying Home New Home

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“I was trying to find a reason for having had to escape from the place that was my home. To convince myself of my choices, I had to make it a place that everyone should want to escape from.”

Want Should Trying Reason Home Choices Convince

Author:Portia de Rossi

Source: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

“I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.”

Way Want Trying Stills Wanted My Way Music Business

Author:Ginuwine

“I was trying to find out what happened in my lifetime, because I was an older man. We lived through two terms of George Bush, and I was wondering, "Is he an exception to the rule, or he is a continuation? What is driving all these wars? What is driving this attitude of aggressiveness and militarism?" I got my answer - and it was a shocking answer. I found is this whole strain of history, this whole school has been denied by the media. It is a bizarre blindness, because we are such an intelligent country. It's bizarre that we can't get our own history straight.”

Men Trying War Country School Term Attitude Wonder Intelligent Lifetime Driving Exception Blindness Bizarre Aggressiveness

Author:Oliver Stone

“I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.”

Giving Trying Hard Understanding Giving Up Understood Stubborn Lack Of Understanding

Author:David Antin

“I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the father doesn't have to put his name down on the certificate.”

Ifs Trying Father Names Certificates

Author:Eartha Kitt

“I was trying to find ways of not being pigeon-holed like that. I didn't want to be tied down by my accent. I wanted to play Americans. I don't want to ever be doing the same thing twice, and I just didn't want to repeat myself.”

Way Want Trying Play Wanted Repeats Tied Accents Pigeons

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I was trying to fit in for so long, until about Junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.”

Trying Years Long School Fit High School Perfection I Realized Juniors Make Me Happy Junior Year Trying To Fit In Junior Year Of High School

Author:Maiara Walsh

“I was trying to focus on Margaret's trajectory as an artist, as a woman and an artist. Hopefully Cavendish experts won't be angry at me for anything I've left out. I feel like all the major movements of her life are there.”

Feels Trying Artist Left Focus Movement Majors Angry Hopefully Experts Left Out Trajectory

Author:Danielle Dutton

“I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.”

Writing Trying Two Team Design Department Great Work Animation

Author:Walt Dohrn

“I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Age Young Found Months Six Bridges Six Months Young Age New Zealand

Author:Bailee Madison

“I was trying to get out of the night clubs and was thinking maybe I'll go to the colleges now; that's where you can speak your mind.”

Thinking Trying Mind Night Speak College Clubs Night Club Speak Your Mind

Author:George Carlin

“I was trying to get over you! And it didn’t work. I was meant to walk on this earth with only you, I was meant to give only you every piece of me. I don’t want anyone but you. I love you.”

Love Romance Shea Alder

Author:Toni Aleo

Source: Taking Shots

“I was trying to get the slightly more cinematic version of my relationship with my mom, which I think was a really common relationship. I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.”

Thinking Trying Common Mom My Mom Versions Cinematic

Author:Dan Fogelman

“I was trying to go... somewhere. But I kept getting pulled back here. I couldn't stop walking, couldn't stop thinking. About the first time I ever saw you, and how after I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institute. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I should have been the one sitting with you. The one who made you laugh like that. I couldn't get rid of that feeling. That it should have been me. And the more I knew you, the more I felt it-- it had never been like that for me before. I'd always wanted a girl and then gotten to know her and not wanted her anymore, but with you the feeling just got stronger and stronger until that night when you showed up at Renwick's and I knew. And then to find out the reason I felt like that-- like you were some part of me I'd lost and never ever knew I was missing until I saw you again-- that the reason was that you were my sister, it felt like some cosmic joke. Like God was spitting on me. I don't even know for what-- for thinking that I actually get to have you, that I would deserve something like that, to be happy. I couldn't imagine what it was I'd done that I was being punished for--”

Love Clary Fray Jace Wayland

Author:Cassandra Clare

Source: City of Glass

“I was trying to have an insight, and all I could think of was that I'd backed myself into a corner, and the corner was me.”

Love Humor Fiction Satire Softball Lunchmeat

Author:John Welter

Source: Night of the Avenging Blowfish: A Novel of Covert Operations, Love, and Luncheon Meat

“I was trying to help you, so I was beating wrong.”

Trying Helping Funny Orchestra Conducting

Author:Eugene Ormandy

“I was trying to hold up a mirror to this country, to reflect the past years or so, and the varying degrees in which we've been affected by the war(s) that doesn't seem to end. And we've all been affected somehow, even if we have no connection to the military, even if we don't know anyone who's killed or been killed. No one escapes something so large.”

Ifs Knows Trying Years War Ends Country Seems Past Military Degrees Connections Mirrors Affected

Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh

“I was trying to keep God's pain at arms length.”

Compassion Empathy Denial

Author:Mike Weaver

“I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.”

Trying Years Firsts Three Names Land Brave Population Als Texas Yankees Dave Atlanta

Author:Pat Gillick

“I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world”

World Trying Years Firsts Country Young Political Three Creating Machines Moved Hills Texas Three Years Johnson

Author:Robert Caro

“I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.”

Trying Firsts Long Home Purpose Song Felt Black Deals Special First Time Train Albums Just One Promoting Away From Home Special To Me

Author:Josh Turner

“I was trying to make a novel about something no one wanted to read about into something they couldn't put down or look away from.”

Trying Looks Wanted Novel

Author:Alexander Chee

“I was trying to make life easy for myself, but I have a mouth too hard for kisses, and arms too rough for embraces. One could easily make a fool of me in any game played under the covers, for I'm a young man, not a girl.”

Sexuality Gender Roles Gender Identity Medieval Romance Transgender Issues Trans Man Trans Male Medieval French Literature

Author:Heldris de Cornualles

Source: Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

“I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.”

Should Trying Firsts Different Hard Shapes Plastic Trying Hard

Author:Leo Baekeland

“I was trying to make the web more civil. I was trying to make it more elegant. I got rid of anonymity. I combined a thousand disparate elements into one unified system. But I didn’t picture a world where Circle membership was mandatory, where all government and all life was channeled through one network.”

World Government Social Media Elegant Anonymity Web Civil The Circle

Author:Dave Eggers

Source: The Circle

“I was trying to make them face their fears. Youth spends so much energy trying to forget them. There's the fear of failure in examinations, fear of sex, fear of not getting a job, fear of unpopularity, fear of appearing naïve. Youth discovers many bunkholes in which to hide when frightened. They are mostly unhealthy, none of them bombproof.”

Trying Jobs Faces Energy Sex Fear Forget Youth Frightened Examination Fear Of Failure Unhealthy Appearing

Author:Muriel Lester

“I was trying to make you fall in love with me," she said. "Then I was going to break your heart." "I have no objection to the first half of the plan," he informed her dryly. "Though I wouldn't care much for the second half.”

Heartbreak Fall In Love Sophia And Ross

Author:Lisa Kleypas

Source: Lady Sophia's Lover

“I was trying to make you jealous!" Simon screamed, right back. His hands were fisted at his sides. "You're so stupid, Clary. You're so stupid, can't you see anything?" She stared at him in bewilderment. What on earth did he mean? "Trying to make me jealous? Why would you try to do that?" She saw immediately that this was the worst thing she could have asked him. "Because," he said, so bitterly that it shocked her, "I've been in love with you for ten years, so I thought it seemed like the time to find out whether you felt the same about me. Which, I guess you don't.”

Trying Years Mean Said Hands Earth Felt Sides Saws Worst Love You Stupid Ten Jealous Worst Things Shocked Been In Love Bewilderment Declarations Of Love You Jealous

Author:Cassandra Clare

“I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.”

Trying Wells Bigs School Mother Lessons Training Expected Manage Olympics Training For The Olympics

Author:Vera Wang

“I was trying to match my mental image of the world, rather than the world itself, and mental images of objects aren't full of detail. If you think house, you're going to get something very general... Dropping detail made the photographs more general, like mental images.”

Ifs Thinking World Trying Made House Objects Photograph Details Dropping

Author:Judy Fiskin

Source: Judy Fiskin

“I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.”

Trying Order Sixty Dvds

Author:Paul Merton

“I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.”

Trying Wells Boys

Author:Mikhail Kalashnikov

“I was trying to play as real possible - I wanted everything to be real.”

Trying Real Play Wanted Being Real

Author:David Giuntoli

“I was trying to point out I'm not opposed to gays having their partnership. I'm opposed to gays using the term marriage for their relationship.”

Trying Gay Partnership

Author:Rick Warren

“I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.”

Ifs Trying Stills Beautiful Prove Smart Fats Loud Ruined

Author:Alice Sebold

Source: Lucky

“I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured.”

Ifs Trying Children One Day Musician Painter Beach My Children Bottles Lecturer

Author:Randy Pausch

Source: The last lecture

“I was trying to put myself in the situation of someone that was going through major loss. Losing someone to death or sickness, and having to go through life on your own afterwords.”

Trying Loss Situation Majors Losing Sickness Losing Someone

Author:Coeur de pirate

“I was trying to raise myself to be a black man in America, and beyond the given of my appearance, no one around me seemed to know exactly what that meant”

America Race Growing Up

Author:Barack Obama

Source: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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