“It's cool that we got rid of that, but we got rid of everything - the encouraging pat on the back or even a hug which I find can be acceptable in some situations. I know that it's a sensible subject and that we're trying to avoid nasty things, but [you can] have as many rules as you want, there will still be stuff happening anyway.” KnowsWantTryingStillsStuffSituationSubjectsHappeningsSensibleAcceptableHugNasty Author:Philippe Falardeau
“We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.” TryingTurnsFiguresHappeningsClock Author:Lester Bowie
“We try to coordinate regularly with Russia, as well as with others - except for the United States - on what is happening in the region. And we're open to discussing with everybody the situation in Syria, because we believe it's a common threat.” TryingBelieveWellsStatesUnitedCommonSituationUnited StatesHappeningsThreatRussiaRegionsSyriaDiscussing Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif
“I'm trying to fly the flag for the days of electronic music where people who are making it are also building the gear because that was what was happening in the very early days of electronic music. And that spirit is one of the things that really appeals to me about electronic music so I'm putting this forward as a way to keep that.” PeopleWayTryingSpiritBuildingHappeningsAppealsFlagsGearsElectronic Music Author:Squarepusher
“I see that happening with hip hop purists now. Where you have an artist like a Kendrick [Lamar] or a Drake, who are really trying different things emotionally, different things musically, and on a mainstream level. And you have underground hip hop fans dissing it, for the simple fact that it's mainstream - not because what they're doing is whack, or what they're doing is not sincere.” TryingDifferentFactsArtistSimpleLevelsFansHappeningsHip HopHipsHopsDifferent ThingsSincereMainstreamTrying Different ThingsDissing Author:Talib Kweli
“If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. . . . Somebody tells me the themes later. I sort of try to avoid developing themes. I want to just keep it a little bit more abstract. But then, what ends up happening is, they say, 'Well, I see a lot here that you did before, and it's connected to this other movie you did,' and . . . that almost seems like something I don't quite choose. It chooses me.” IfsWantTryingWellsLittlesIdeasEndsSeemsAsksBitsLittle BitHappeningsConnectedDevelopingAsk MeAbstractThemeLike SomethingChoose Me Author:Wes Anderson
“[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.” ThinkingTryingMindDesireEasyMy OwnLossAudienceViolenceChildhoodHappeningsVictimCriminalsInnocenceShockLoss Of Innocence Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh
“I can't blame anyone for being pessimistic when they look around, after all the blood spilled and energy spent to gain ground for working people in the past, and see it all happening again. I wasn't pointing a finger when I wrote the book, but sometimes the message is there even when you aren't actively trying to be the messenger.” PeopleTryingLooksI CanBookSometimesPastEnergyBloodMessagesHappeningsGainsBlameFingersPointingPessimisticMessengersHappening AgainPeople From The Past Author:James Vance
“It's certainly an interesting moment to try to talk about, 'cause you could make a great show about the police force right now, with all that's happening in the news and Ferguson and all of it.” TryingMomentsShowsForceCausesInterestingRight NowNewsHappeningsPolicePolice ForceFerguson Author:Ethan Hawke
“The biggest challenge of being the press secretary is trying to be aware of all of the things that are happening, both around the world but also here at home and in politics, and trying to absorb all of that information as quickly as I can.” WorldTryingI CanHomeChallengesInformationHappeningsPressesAround The WorldSecretary Author:Josh Earnest
“I always try to connect with what's happening in the world-reality, modernity, the 21st century, all that - and with Jil it started to feel very disconnected from the outside and how women were looking at fashion, experiencing fashion, interpreting fashion.” WorldFeelsTryingRealityCenturyFashionHappenings21st CenturyModernityDisconnectedInterpreting Author:Raf Simons
“I was reading the paper and saw a cartoon with Ray Kelly frisking Obama, and I was like "Wait, what's happening?" so I Googled it. For everything Obama stands for and the things he's said in the past in his books, especially with the Trayvon Martin thing - and I'm not sure if he [made his comments on Trayvon] because he was asked a question and he was trying to be diplomatic and neutral - that can't happen.” IfsTryingMadeSaidBookHappensPastReadingWaitingSawsPaperHappeningsNot SureCommentRaysCartoonDiplomaticTrayvon MartinTrayvon Author:Adepero Oduye
“I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is hand the election over to the Democrats. I don't know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they'll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening.” KnowsWayTryingDoeHandsPartyVictoryRepublicanHappeningsElectionDemocratDefeatRepublican Party Author:Benjamin Carson
“I don't know that it makes any difference whether it's at this time or a hundred years before or a hundred years later. I think always it's a matter of simply listen[ing] to what is going on around you and in your own experience. Try to understand what's happening, or if not to understand it, at least to appreciate the reality of it.” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingYearsMatterRealityDifferencesHappeningsHundredAppreciate Author:Frederick Buechner
“So when we're told to "move on" or "let go," we should take a look at who is saying it and why, and when we see repetition happening it's worth trying to understand it before attempting to shut it down.” ShouldTryingLooksMovingLetting GoHappeningsRepetitionAttempting Author:Laura Mullen
“I do try to pay attention to new bands and what's happening within the scene. I try to make sure I give everything a listen - even if I loathe it.” IfsGivingTryingPayAttentionSceneBandHappeningsPay AttentionLoathe Author:Mat McNerney
“So when Community came up and then the movie roles started happening I was very grateful. I am trying to be careful with the movie roles I select because if you pull the trigger too quickly, like choosing a lead role in a crappy movie then you will be put in movie jail and you will never be heard from again. If it's not a big hit you'll be forgotten pretty fast.” IfsTryingBigsCommunityRolesHeardHappeningsGratefulForgottenCarefulJailBe CarefulTriggersSelect Author:Joel McHale
“That's the kind of visual that you're trying to attract - something that in some way or another, connects you to what's happening there in a realistic way.” WayTryingKindHappeningsVisualsRealistic Author:Frank Luntz
“If you're going to make a big wave, you have to be totally unified with everything that's happening... Maybe in the moment of having to know everything all at once you burst through the barriers of trying to put things in order.” IfsKnowsTryingMomentsBigsOrderSportsHappeningsWaveBarriersInspirational SportsUnified Author:Nick Carroll
“I hear Amy Schumer on Howard Stern, and I think, "I wish there was a movie that starred her, because she's so interesting," and then at some point I go, "I guess I have to get involved, because it's not happening right now. Maybe I should help try to make that happen."” ThinkingShouldTryingHelpingHappensWishInterestingInvolvedRight NowHappeningsGet InvolvedAmy Author:Judd Apatow
“I've always been someone who likes to share and talk. When something happens to me I [don't] run away from it. I want to dive right into and explore it. Try to figure out why it's happening and try to figure out something good that's going to come out of it.” WantTryingHappensRunningShareFiguresHappeningsThings HappenLikesRunning Away Author:Tristan Prettyman
“The work that I've been trying to do with violence against women and children comes from seeing quite a bit of violence. I just think it's important that we try to help the young boys who are watching the fathers do it - because if it's OK for the fathers to do it, then these young boys are watching their dads and going, well, nothing's happening to them, so maybe this is OK. But actually, this violence needs to stop in the sandpits.” IfsThinkingNeedsTryingWellsChildrenImportantHelpingYoungFatherBitsBoysViolenceSeeingDadHappeningsViolence Against Women Author:Kelly LeBrock
“Africa is being raped mainly by Asia, but the second largest market for dead endangered animals is the US. Most don't know this is happening. I didn't, but once I found out, I had to try and help.” KnowsTryingHelpingFoundAnimalHappeningsAsia Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten
“Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back as well and use that spotlight to shine, or at least to balance that light and to try to shine light onto the other issues that were happening in the world.” WorldGivingTryingWellsUseLightOrderActorsGrowing UpIssuesGrowingFiguresBalanceHappeningsShiningI RealizedPlatformsGiving BackSpotlight Author:Serinda Swan
“Obviously, there's all sorts of life happening all around us, but on a human level, I'm just interested in people making informed decisions. You know, increasing their awareness. And also, trying to encourage people to be more fascinated with information and science and knowledge of all sorts, instead of, you know, it's a generalization, but the encouragement by society, the reflections that society gives us, which is media, television, art - anything, really.” PeopleKnowsGivingTryingHumansArtDecisionLevelsAwarenessMediaInformationTelevisionHappeningsReflectionEncouragementFascinatedGeneralizationLife Happens Author:Reggie Watts
“Every day, no matter what is happening around me, I consciously try to discipline my own feelings and my mind about what I have to be grateful for, because by any stretch of the imagination - even during the worst times when people are accusing me of things and doing all that they do - I'm a very lucky person.” PeopleTryingMindPersonsMatterFeelingsImaginationMy OwnWorstDisciplineLuckyHappeningsNo Matter WhatGratefulBe GratefulAccusingWorst TimesLucky PersonAccusing Me Author:Hillary Clinton
“Remember that for someone to be so mean, something must be going on with them. Something must be happening to make them so unhappy that they feel the need to bring others down. I try to have empathy for them.” NeedsFeelsTryingMeanRememberEmpathyHappeningsUnhappy Author:Laura Michelle Kelly
“I've also found that trying to be active with social media changes my moment-to-moment perceptions. Instead of feeling, "What's the deepest version of what's happening here?" I start to feel, "How can I use [or "claim"] this?".” FeelsTryingMomentsUseFeelingsFoundSocialMediaPerceptionHappeningsClaimsSocial MediaActiveVersions Author:George Saunders
“The goal is to talk about the issues that are happening in the USA with the ultimate goal of making change. Not just some rebellious act that we're trying to have against our country.” TryingCountryGoalIssuesHappeningsUltimateOur CountryUsaMaking ChangesRebelliousUltimate Goal Author:Eric Reid
“I look at a photograph. What's going on? What's happening, photographically? If it's interesting, I try to understand why.” IfsTryingLooksInterestingHappeningsPhotograph Author:Garry Winogrand
“It's just if one person says anything it becomes click bait and then they start talking about the comedy climate which is hilarious, so no. You know what it is? People are adults and they know they're at a comedy show but every once in a while somebody isn't an adult and then for some reason, you know, it's lazy reporting. They're trying to create this thing that isn't happening. It's not like people go in there and are just sitting with laptops open getting ready to blog about every stupid joke.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingPersonsReasonShowsTalkingComedyStupidReadyHappeningsJokesSittingAdultsClimateLazySay AnythingBlogsClicksLaptopsBaitVery StupidComedy ShowsStupid Jokes Author:Bill Burr
“A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or better than the works he's been praised for previously. And a lot of playwrights become confused by this and they start doing imitations of what they've done before, or they try to do something entirely different, in which case they get accused by the same critics of not doing what they used to do so well.” TryingWellsDifferentDoneUsedCasesHappeningsCriticsUglyConfusedImitationAccusedPlaywrightKnocked DownUgly Things Book:Conversations with Edward Albee Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“Even heads of our own security agency said, you know, we need to take a deep breath on this. This really doesn't seem to be happening [that Russians are trying to influence American domestic politics ].” KnowsNeedsTryingSaidSeemsInfluenceSecurityHappeningsBreathsAgencyDeep BreathTake A Deep Breath Author:Jill Stein
“There are always so many things happening [to us] at one time. We read Isherwood's A Single Man in class, and we had to ask: How is he talking about all this stuff: teaching, being lonely, all his memories, all at the same time? He's telling us: This is where my head is at, let me be straightforward. And of course, try be artful about it.” MenTryingCoursesAsksStuffMemoriesTalkingClassTeachingHappeningsLonelyLet MeThings HappenOne TimeStraightforwardBeing LonelySingle Man Author:Paul Beatty
“What is happening now is that producers are trying to figure out new ways to distribute that content.” WayTryingFiguresHappeningsProducersNew Ways Author:Maria Bartiromo
“I just try to enjoy the moment and enjoy what's happening. I mean, I want to be conscious of what's going on around me, and be aware of if I can make a change and make things better, which I think is very important.” IfsThinkingWantTryingMeanI CanImportantMomentsEnjoyHappeningsConsciousMaking Changes Author:Donavon Frankenreiter
“You have to try and embrace it all and everyone who represents that change because it is happening.” TryingHappeningsEmbrace Author:Kate Bush
“For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes, you know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today's life and no discussion of the real conditions - which is really sickening. They've become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.” KnowsTryingKindRealTodayFilmLyingActorsCasesFantasyConditionsCrimeProduceHeroDirectorsHappeningsCriminalsKingdomsDiscussionRelatedConspiracyCollaboratorsGeneral Public Author:Ai Weiwei
“What ends up happening is people form images and the image they form is, in some ways, what they want it to be. The idea of trying to correct the image is something I'm not interested in doing.” PeopleWayWantTryingIdeasEndsFormHappeningsNot Interested Author:George W. Bush
“It wasn't until about a year, year and a half in where I began to realize that the Pentagon and our national-security apparatus and the CIA were all getting too comfortable with the technology as a tool to fight terrorism, and not being mindful enough about how that technology is being used and the dangers of a form of warfare that is so detached from what is actually happening on the ground. And so we initiated this big process to try to get it in a box.” TryingYearsEnoughBigsFormUsedFightingProcessRealizingHalfTechnologySecurityDangerComfortableHappeningsToolsBoxesTerrorismWarfareNational SecurityCiaDetachedPentagon Author:Barack Obama
“We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone else knows what's happening, that they're not alone - and someone who listens to what is needed and tries to help.” PeopleKnowsWantTryingFirstsImportantHelpingFormSufferingNeededHappeningsWitnessNot Alone Author:Gloria Steinem
“Children in poverty aren't trying to get out of poverty; they're just trying to rip off a pair of Nikes. So we Indian people are a microcosm of what's happening in America. We are now consumers, and our culture has gone.” PeopleTryingChildrenAmericaCulturePovertyGoneHappeningsConsumersIndianPairsRipMicrocosmNike Author:Russell Means
“Since the election [of Donald Trump], I've been thinking about a lot of theory. Lots of [Michel] Foucault and [Karl] Marx, thinking about different systems, thinking about power. Trying to figure out what I can take and learn from history as a tool for getting through whatever is happening right now, which feels very significant and major.” ThinkingFeelsTryingI CanDifferentFiguresTheoryTrumpRight NowMajorsHappeningsToolsElectionSignificantSystems Thinking Author:Morgan Parker
“I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life. I also try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin, to move through the world as a black American woman in her mid-twenties. Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.” WorldFeelsTryingLooksHelpingShowsFeelingsMovingArtistSongLanguageSoundBlackEnvironmentParticularTvsHappeningsSkinsTwentiesSmellStatementsTv ShowsAmerican WomanMessiness Author:Morgan Parker
“The media has been trying to undermine Donald Trump from the moment he got into the race, and he has triumphed over them at every turn - and they can't stand that, either. And they've realized they alone don't have the power to get rid of Trump. So now it's join forces with the deep state, the sabotage going on with the Obama army that is working in quiet and invisibility within the shadow government, if you will. And even that is not distancing Trump's supporters from him. They know full well what's happening, and they're infuriated by it, and they're furious.” IfsKnowsTryingWellsHas BeensStatesMomentsGovernmentTurnsForceRaceMediaTrumpQuietHappeningsShadowArmySupporterFuriousSabotageInvisibility Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I initially thought it was going to feel weird to be [on Sundance] while [the marches against now-President Donald Trump] was happening. And feel disconnected in that way that feels irresponsible. But the other side of it is that there are people here who believe the right things that are trying to make a difference with art.” PeopleWayFeelsTryingBelieveArtSidesPresidentDifferencesTrumpHappeningsRight ThingMaking A DifferenceMarchIrresponsibleDisconnectedSundance Author:Elijah Wood
“I find it is happening in different ways to every industry in the world, and positioning yourself for that, and trying to get ahead of that, is a big conversation right now.” WorldWayTryingDifferentBigsIndustryRight NowConversationHappeningsDifferent WaysGet Ahead Author:Ken Moelis
“Their [BBC] idea of bipartisanship is to try not to offend the Conservative party, try not to offend the Labour party.There is no analysis of anything beyond that, and these two parties are exactly identical, following the same Neoliberal policies for thirty years. And it's no criticism outside of that, it's just that there's basically sectarian pandering to these two individual parties, these two individual organisations. They still make a lot of great programmes and do a lot of great things, but there's not much political analysis happening broader to that.” TryingYearsStillsTwoIdeasPoliticalIndividualPartyPolicyHappeningsCriticismConservativeFollowingGreat ThingsAnalysisThirtyLabourIdenticalOrganisationThirty YearsProgrammesLabour PartyConservative PartyBipartisanship Author:Irvine Welsh
“I'll keep this as nonpartisan and diplomatic as possible - but for those of us whose heads are kind of spinning off and are really engaged in what's happening right now and trying to effect change where we can, when we can, I think we also need to express ourselves and express our anger and also find joy in things like The Golden Girls right now.” ThinkingNeedsTryingKindJoyGirlEffectsRight NowHappeningsGoldenEngagedSpinningDiplomaticGolden Girls Author:June Diane Raphael
“People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries" rather than people who are going to get jobs in the system. And that is a huge change, a cultural revolution. The things that are happening in Detroit would amaze you if you're used to only looking at statistics, and only thinking of blacks as sufferers and not as activists.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingTryingChildrenJobsUsedHugeRevolutionHappeningsStartingStatisticsActivistGardeningUrbanDetroitSufferersHuge Changes Author:Grace Lee Boggs