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“I'm trying to move an aircraft carrier here, I'm not just steering the speedboat.”

Trying Moving Aircraft Carrier Steering Aircraft Carriers

“I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Bits Records Heard Beats Singing Hip Hop Hips Range Hops

Author:Lauryn Hill

“I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.”

Trying Wells Art I Can Painting Moved Paint

Author:Gerhard Richter

“I'm trying to paint an underwater ocean scene. It's just not working. My queen angelfish is supposed to have these bright yellow eyes and electric-blue stripes along the edge of her fin. Instead, it looks like I'm trying to paint a fried egg with some blue bacon. Maybe I can pass it off as postmodern.”

Trying Looks I Can Eye Scene Ocean Blue Paint Edges Queens Eggs Yellow Electric Stripes Underwater Postmodern Fins

Author:Susane Colasanti

Source: Something Like Fate

“I'm trying to phase out my availability on the phone. People call you when you're walking down the street and say the most random stuff.”

People Trying Stuff Streets Walking Phones Phases Availability Random Stuff Most Random

Author:Nico Muhly

“I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.”

Trying Looks Rooms Eating Plant Hotel Bananas Vitamins Hotel Rooms Mosques Blenders

Author:Jimmy Page

“I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up.”

Thinking Trying Long Play Long Time Picks Guitar Nurturing

Author:Bucky Pope

“I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.”

Trying Reason Play Difficult Music Jazz

Author:Charles Mingus

“I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.”

Trying Stuff Practice

Author:Alexandra Paul

“I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Pay Attention Pay Attention Repeats Destined

Author:Clint Eastwood

“I'm trying to protect you. From myself. I don't do..." he swung a finger back and forth between us"...this.”

Trying Protect Fingers Back And Forth Protect You

Author:Tammara Webber

“I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.”

Writing Trying Elements Essays

Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski

“I'm trying to put the ridiculousness to bed. The president of the United States is the president of the United States.”

Trying States President United United States Bed

Author:Chris Matthews

“I'm trying to put together quality at-bats and hit the ball hard somewhere.”

Trying Hard Together Quality Balls Bats

Author:Garrett Atkins

“I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags.”

Trying Quitting Bags Groceries Glue Huffing

Author:Davy Rothbart

“I'm trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it's not just them at war - it's also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.”

Trying War Awareness Stress Raises Hardship Troops

Author:Chris Kyle

“I'm trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep.”

Trying Book Funny Fall Witty Relax Falling Asleep

Author:James M. Loy

“I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.”

People Trying Stuff Jury Keep Trying Dead People

Author:Rick Moody

“I'm trying to read/edit my story as if I have no existing knowledge of the story, no investment in it, no sense of what Herculean effort went into writing page 23, no pretensions as to why the dull patch on page 4 is important for the fireworks that will happen on page 714.”

Ifs Writing Trying Important Stories Happens Effort Pages Investment Dull Patches Edits Pretension Fireworks

Author:George Saunders

“I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.”

Giving Trying Kids Careers Deserve Great Work

Author:Tom Sizemore

“I'm trying to remain unfamous.”

Trying

Author:Anwar Robinson

“I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.”

Should Trying Moments Remember Numbers Sun

Author:Terry Pratchett

Source: The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel

“I'm trying to satirize what it's like to be a recording artist in 2011. I realize that standing on a soap box and ranting and raving about my opinions on the digital age and its effect on music is only going to get you so far.”

Trying Age Artist Realizing Opinion Effects Music Is Standing Boxes Digital Soap Digital Age Ranting And Raving

Author:DJ Shadow

“I'm trying to see if I can speak about our society today, but I cannot speak about the theme, because it's a bit difficult. I'm just starting to work on that. Because we live in a kind of world which has drastically changed in the last years. We speak about globalization, and how it's become the reason for everything. It has a kind of deep meaning. To be everywhere and to be nowhere at the same time. You think to globalize, you think, the Earth, it's your country. No, it's not your country. It's not easy to catch it in a cinema. It's too huge.”

Thinking World Trying Kind Country Reason Today Earth Speak Easy Difficult Changed Globalization

Author:Costa-Gavras

“I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.”

Trying Country Eye My Own

Author:Asne Seierstad

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

Trying Audience Sells

Author:Eddy Arnold

“I'm trying to separate myself from other people by having songs that would be considered - technically - original things. I don't seek out mashups. I'm associated with the whole mashup movement, and it's too bad because I'm not a huge fan of them.”

People Trying Whole Would Be Song Fans Movement Huge Originals Mashups

Author:Girl Talk

“I'm trying to set out the passion and complexity of this sport. Many people think it's a dumb activity: stand on the gas and turn left. In fact, it's probably one of the most complex sports in existence.”

People Thinking Trying Facts Turns Passion Left Sports Existence Activity Complexes Dumb Complexity Gas

Author:Janet Guthrie

“I'm trying to set up opportunities for myself so that I don't only have one outlet to go through and rely upon as far as a support system financially, emotionally and mentally.”

Trying Opportunity Support Rely Outlets Rely Upon Support Systems

Author:Busta Rhymes

“I'm trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That's all you have to do. It's no big deal. One act of kindness a day can do it.”

Ifs World Trying Enough Shows Bigs Care Action Can Do Deals Kindness Big Deal Acts Of Kindness

Author:Betty Williams

“I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.”

Trying I Can Different Character Shows Actresses Different Characters

Author:Ming-Na Wen

“I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.”

Trying Speak Angel Shut Up My Angel

Author:Patrick Swayze

“I'm trying to sign up and do movies that I'll be proud of it. That's kind of how I think about it.”

Thinking Trying Kind Proud Be Proud

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I'm trying to simplify my life, I guess that's my latest project.”

Trying Projects Simplify

Author:Jeremy Jones

“I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.”

Trying Long Term Ability Careers Skills Long Term

Author:Martha Wainwright

“I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.”

Ifs Writing Trying I Can Speak Clear Achieve Originals Clarity Plenty Fancy Not Interested

Author:Octavia Butler

Source: Parable of the Sower

“I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.”

Feels Trying Reality Joy Focus One Day Anxiety Pressure Calm Excitement Nerves One Day At A Time

Author:Shawn Johnson

“I'm trying to stay as healthy as possible but there's no pressure to be really skinny. No. That's just a bit wrong.”

Trying Bits Healthy Pressure Skinny No Pressure

Author:Leona Lewis

“I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers.”

Trying Ideas Turns Evil Poet Internet Blessing Publishing Foe

Author:Joan Larkin

“I'm trying to steal from everybody. So yeah, there's cats that I'm personally affiliated with - Carl Franklin, Paul Thomas Anderson - and others that I don't know personally but their work I'm a big admirer of, like Martin Scorsese. But I'm hoping to come up with a language that is mine, that's specific to my take on this material.”

Knows Trying Bigs Language Mines Materials Cat Yeah Come Up Stealing Franklin Admirer Scorsese

Author:Don Cheadle

“I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.”

Trying Balance Hollywood Strikes Bollywood

Author:Irrfan Khan

“I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.”

World Trying Kind Different Earth Term Middle Middle Earth

Author:John Boorman

“I'm trying to sum up President Obama's first 11 months in office. He gave billions to Wall Street, cracked down on illegal immigrants getting health care, and he's sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. You know something, he may go down in history as our greatest Republican president ever.”

Knows Trying Firsts May Care President Streets Wall Months Republican Office Billions Health Care Immigrants Illegal Afghanistan President Obama Troops Cracked Illegal Immigrants

Author:Jay Leno

“I'm trying to take a positive out the disappointment, but I'm also trying to do what's best for my career as well.”

Trying Wells Motivational Careers Athlete Disappointment

Author:Dathan Ritzenhein

“I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by life: Asian life, European life, certainly black life. My plays are about love, honor, duty, betrayal - things humans have written about since the beginning of time.”

Trying Humans Ideas Play Culture Black Written Duty Honor Capable Betrayal No Idea Asian Sustaining Black Lives

Author:August Wilson

“I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.”

Trying

Author:Joel Sternfeld

“I'm trying to teach my children not to cry. That's the big thing. No crying. Because I think we can all agree that crying is, for the most part, for sissies. If my team loses, I'm going to cry. And I'm going to want my kids to see me crying. Not because I think sports are so important, but because I bet so much money on the game that we'll probably lose the house if my team doesn't win. That's something to cry about.”

Ifs Thinking Want Trying Children Important Bigs Kids Games House Winning Sports Loses Teach Team Cry Agree My Children Big Things Sissy

Author:Michael Ian Black

“I'm trying to teach my daughter about healthy eating.”

Trying Mother Teach Healthy Eating Daughter My Daughter Healthy Eating

Author:Carnie Wilson

“I'm trying to teach my girlfriend how to surf. But I just end up yelling at her the whole time. Because I don't know how to surf.”

Knows Trying Ends Whole Teach Know How Girlfriend My Girlfriend Yelling Surf

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I'm trying to teach people how to live their everyday lives, and so I do focus on it, probably not as much as some people would like.”

People Trying Teach Focus Everyday Everyday Life

Author:Joel Osteen

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