“The way to respect all the people I love is to eat the music, have it in my blood and bones, and try to explore it in as much different ways as possible to create my own identity.” PeopleWayTryingDifferentMy OwnLove IsBloodIdentityBonesDifferent Ways Author:Hiromi
“I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything.” PeopleWayTryingHumansUseSongMy OwnRelateCouchesPsychiatristMy Own Life Author:Iron & Wine
“I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I'm realizing more and more that it doesn't really matter if I'm good at it, it just matters that I try. My own effort, my own willingness, are becoming what's appealing to me.” IfsFeelsShouldTryingMatterRealizingMy OwnEffortBecomingSmartWillingness Author:Lena Dunham
“I'm my own worst critic, so I try and not focus on what I've done wrong, or what I could improve on.” TryingDoneMy OwnFocusWorstCritics Author:Mandy Moore
“I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."” WayWantTryingActorsMy OwnColumbus Author:Columbus Short
“Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy.” TryingLooksMy OwnPerspectiveHollywoodOriginalsDeeperOriginalityTriggersRemakes Author:Colin Farrell
“When I look back, I was so mean to myself, and I was so uncomfortable in my own skin. I still feel that very loudly sometimes, but to try and really nurture that sense that you are your own friend.” FeelsTryingLooksMeanStillsSometimesMy OwnSkinsUncomfortableNurture Author:Sara Bareilles
“When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which feeds the analytic faculty with boundless alternatives and which causes each visualized route to fork and re-fork without end in the maddeningly complex prospect of my past.” TryingEndsActionPastCausesImaginationMy OwnComplexesSurrenderAlternativesMotiveFacultyRoutesCravingBoundlessMy PastForksAnalyticsRetrospective Book:Lolita Source: Lolita
“I came to the resolve that the attempt was not only worth trying, but should be tried in the very near future if we wanted at all to keep our flag flying; for I was sure as of my own existence that if another decade was allowed to pass without an endeavour of some kind or another to shake off an unjust yoke, the Irish people would sink into lethargy from which it would be impossible for any patriot . . . to arouse them . . .” PeopleIfsShouldTryingKindWould BeWantedMy OwnExistenceImpossibleRepublicanDecadesFlyingShakesResolveFlagsPatriotUnjustEndeavourYokeLethargy Author:James Stephens
“The Babe is one fellow, and I'm another and I could never be exactly like him. I don't try, I just go on as I am in my own right.” TryingMy OwnGoes OnFellowsYankeesBabeNew York Yankees Author:Lou Gehrig
“My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.” WorldWritingTryingLittlesDreamRealityBlackMy OwnWhiteReaderUnderstoodAbsolutesMirrorsComplexesCastsHonestlyHopefullyBlack And WhiteDream WorldAmbivalent Author:Andre Dubus
“I'm not really a director or producer for hire. There's lots of big gigs out there, but I'm not looking to do that. Usually, when I'm directing or producing, I've written it myself. I'm not really trying to get on some big horse that's running through town. I just make my own stuff.” TryingBigsRunningStuffMy OwnWrittenDirectorsHorseTownsProducersGigs Author:Mike White
“It's hard to not get typed in Hollywood. They really want to type you. I'm trying to avoid that, because I want to do a lot of things. I know what I'm capable of. I forgive them because they don't know. They haven't seen me play Hamlet. They're not going to cast me as an English aristocrat. I'm going to have to prove that on my own. That's okay. That's what you have to fight for if you want to be an artist.” IfsKnowsWantTryingHardPlayArtistFightingMy OwnHavensTypeProveCapableOkayHollywoodForgivingCasts Author:Sam Rockwell
“I think one of the things that might distinguish me is when I'm going to work as an actor I really try not to worry about my own personal hang-ups and just really concentrate on the work. Because I have such a respect for acting, which is something I feel like I'm constantly learning how to do, that all of my energy is always focused on the acting itself.” ThinkingFeelsTryingMightActorsEnergyMy OwnActingWorryFocusedGoing To WorkHang UpsConstantly Learning Author:Peter Sarsgaard
“I'm trying to avoid any more asshole roles, at least for a little bit. The main criteria for me when choosing a project is a good director. I just want to work with these guys that I admire because I do want to direct my own films one day, and I want to pick their brains to see what their process is like, and see what I can take from that.” WantTryingLittlesI CanFilmGuyBitsProcessMy OwnBrainRolesOne DayDirectorsProjectsLittle BitPicksDirectAdmireCriteriaGood Directors Author:Dave Franco
“I've seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don't do commercials, I don't do films pre-prepared by other people, I don't do star system. So I do my own little thing.” PeopleTryingLittlesBeautifulFilmCertainStarsMy OwnLevelsQualityPreparedLittle Things Author:Agnes Varda
“The human animal is a fascinating beast. Watching people and trying to learn how and why they do things, and to engage in the somewhat futile attempt to explain them...it's my reason for living I guess...to ask 'why?'. I don't know what else to do with myself. In some strange way it's probably an attempt to understand myself and my own relationship to the world.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayTryingHumansReasonAsksMy OwnAnimalStrangeBeastFascinatingHuman Animal Author:Andrew Neel
“I was really psyched about crooner types like Frank Sinatra or Scott Walker. Something that comes more from the stomach than the throat. There's an emotional thrust to singing that way that I wanted to try on my own. I can't really sing deep and strong like that, but I wanted to just aim in that direction.” WayTryingI CanWantedStrongMy OwnEmotionalTypeSingingAimThroatStomachFrankThrustWalkers Author:Panda Bear
“For a guy who didn't expect a fan base whatsoever, I'm pretty stoked. People say they don't understand it, and I say that's okay. I don't think anyone can argue that I'm not trying to do my own thing at least.” PeopleThinkingTryingGuyMy OwnFansOkayArguing Author:Aesop Rock