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“Most people are really fighting to not be adults. And, when it happens, it's a big transition. And a lot of that is just awful. It's awful to have to get a job and really be responsible for other people. And it is funny, too. Like, we're all kind of little idiot kids trying to act like we know what we are doing.”

People Knows Trying Kind Littles Bigs Happens Kids Jobs Fighting Adults Responsible All Kinds Awful Idiot Transition Being Responsible

Author:Judd Apatow

“I just look like a transvestite when I try to dress up. There's no place to hide my balls.”

Trying Looks Balls Dresses Transvestites

Author:Sarah Silverman

“I suppose I will try to enjoy my life now while I have it. Who knows what's going to happen in the future?”

Knows Trying Happens Enjoy

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I know what its like to direct. You become a more considerate actor. After you have directed, you understand what is going on. You can't help but think of the material as a director. You do come up with suggestions. You come up with shortcuts that you weren't aware of before. You try to be helpful to the director if he has a lot on his hands.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Helping Hands Actors Materials Directors Direct Come Up Helpful Suggestions Shortcuts Considerate

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.”

Trying Sometimes Obvious Routes

Author:Al Yankovic

“That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.”

Knows Trying Bigs Lines Know How Comfort Prepared Depth Hopefully Zone Comfort Zone

Author:Al Yankovic

“I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.”

World Way Trying Seems Reading Normal Silent Enlightening

Author:Jenny Hval

“When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then I just wasn't good enough. But I've learned that I was also on the outside - wanting more challenge by living in that more conventional world.”

World Trying Hard Enough Beautiful Challenges Growing Up Growing Keys I've Learned Good Enough Conventional Something Beautiful Wanting More Trying Too Hard

Author:Jenny Hval

“It feels very different to have long, thick, brightly colored hair. It makes me feel so conflicted to wear, and I believe showing a conflicted person onstage is actually really interesting and emotionally engaging. I'm trying to not just be the person standing on the outside and looking at something, but to actually be it, in a way.”

Way Feels Trying Believe Persons Long Different I Believe Interesting Hair Standing Thick Engaging Really Interesting Red Hair

Author:Jenny Hval

“He [Donald Trump] is a tough boss. I've known him for decades. He hasn't changed very much. He's a driven person, highly intelligent, and he's very motivated, very charismatic, and he is tough as nails in the sense there's no slack there. You can't put anything over on Donald. Donald can see right through someone trying to dissemble or spin stuff.”

Trying Persons Stuff Known Changed Trump Tough Intelligent Driven Decades Boss Motivated Nails Charismatic Highly Intelligent

Author:Geraldo Rivera

“I try to tell people that just because you're buff and cut doesn't mean you're healthy.”

People Trying Mean Cutting Healthy

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Hollywood is a bit of a publicity game where it's constantly trying to portray things and put up this image and I was not interested in that.”

Trying Games Bits Hollywood Not Interested Publicity

Author:Terry Crews

“As a parent you walk around trying to be perfect, but you don't have to be perfect. That's the key. You just have to be faithful, and when I say faithful I mean you have to give your all.”

Giving Trying Mean Parent Walks Perfect Keys Faithful Being Faithful Trying To Be Perfect

Author:Terry Crews

“I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh. I started out young just making my family laugh and trying to make kids laugh in school and getting into plays. I think it's the only thing I know how to do so hopefully it works out.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Play Kids Wanted School Young Laughing Know How Comedy My Family Work Out Hopefully Making People Laugh

Author:Jillian Bell

“Look at all those American preachers who got caught with their pants down. They say one thing and they are doing another. I try to be more honest about it, both in my thinking and my behavior.”

Thinking Trying Looks One Thing Honest Behavior Caught Pants Preacher

Author:Steve Coogan

“I try to take a couple of young guys under my wing and tell them what I've learned, because you can't teach nobody if you don't know anything.”

Ifs Knows Trying Young Guy Teach Couple Wings I've Learned Young Guys

Author:Gucci Mane

“It's always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements.”

Trying Past Difficult Achievement

Author:Michael Jackson

“I love the question-and-answer. I love to see liberals try to thrash their way to a coherent argument. And actually, I think it's fun to debate.”

Thinking Way Trying Fun Answers Argument Debate Questions And Answers

Author:Ann Coulter

“If I ever get some free time I end up thinking about what to make next. I don't pick up a guitar and start playing the songs I already know; I immediately try to write a riff.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Trying Ends Song Next Picks Guitar Free Time

Author:Chaz Bundick

“I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.”

People Writing Trying Years Inspiration Age Changed

Author:John Mellencamp

“I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do.”

Knows Trying Know How Singing Persona

Author:Lana Del Rey

“I'm the most underrated, most hated, greatest of all time. I constantly have people who quit their jobs just to go on the internet and try to stop me at any and all costs. People flag my videos thousands of times.”

People Trying Jobs Goes On Internet Cost Quitting Video All Time Hated Flags Underrated

Author:Riff Raff

“When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That's just me.”

Way Trying Turns Sound Contemporary

Author:Nas

“Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word "useful" an absolute meaning; nothing is useful if it is not useful to man; nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.”

Ifs Men Giving Trying Mind Ends Lying Values Position Serious Absolutes Oppression Latter Utility Meaning Nothing

Book:The Ethics of Ambiguity

Source: The Ethics of Ambiguity

“There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.”

People World Trying Numbers This World Solitary Shells Hermits Small Numbers Crabs Snail Hermit Crabs

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I'm trying to do something that is real. What I mean is this; my sense of being in the world starts with a physical relationship with my surroundings, their weight, texture, density, transparency, and so forth.”

World Trying Mean Real Reality Weight Surroundings Transparency Texture Density

Author:Andrew Forge

“Your job is to create. Their job is to try to stop you. Don't do both jobs.”

Trying Jobs

Author:Anna Olson

“Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.”

Trying Important Failure Important Things Permanent Keep Trying

Author:Anna Olson

“Currents of energy shimmer through our bodies. Like shooting stars, we rocket through spacious stillness. But this silent, unmoving background is nothing like the granite ideas we use trying to take root in groundless soil.”

Trying Ideas Use Body Energy Stars Roots Silent Currents Backgrounds Shooting Soil Stillness Rockets Granite Shimmer Shooting Star

Author:Anthony Lawlor

“You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.”

Trying Body Religion Grows Growing Up Symbols Visuals Imagery

Author:Robert Gober

“When you try to do something you've never done before, you risk falling on your face.”

Trying Done Faces Fall Risk Your Face

Author:Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

“Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.”

Ifs Inspirational Trying Purpose Goal Achieve Civilization Achievement Aim Everyday Forgotten Live Life Accomplishment Living My Life Live Life Happy One Life To Live Lifetime Achievement

Author:Jean Giono

“The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.”

Trying Humans Reality Light Faces Grace Magic Succeed Shadow Paint Passing Passings Painter Human Faces Light And Shadow Overtaking

Author:John Edgar Park

“I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.”

Trying Years Mind Lasts Dies Theme

Book:Kitaj

Source: Kitaj

“Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.”

Ifs World Way Writing Trying Art Facts Stories Earth Form Artist Order Force Natural Behinds Vision Novel Creation Objects Planets Chaos Driven Impulse Appropriate Screenplays Planet Earth

Author:Robert Olen Butler

“When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.”

People Trying Hard Jobs Jealousy Jealous Ambitious Supportive Get Jealous

Author:Squeak Carnwath

“I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else. Mostly, I think I wanted to be a writer, or at least to try for a while.”

Thinking Trying Stills I Can Done Wanted Careers Imagine Profession Not Sure

Book:A Peter Gzowski Reader

Source: A Peter Gzowski Reader

“I try to work every day, even when I'm not motivated. Ritual is very important to me.”

Trying Important Ritual Motivated

Author:Mel Ramos

“I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.”

Trying Age Creatures Architecture Timeless

Author:David Chipperfield

“Actors, who should pride themselves on their singularity, are forever trying to be someone else. It isn’t necessary for you, the actor, to like yourself— self-love isn’t easy to come by for most of us— but you must learn to trust who you are. There is no one else like you.”

Should Trying Self Actors Easy Forever Like You Pride Self Love Who You Are Singularity Like Yourself

Book:Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part

Source: Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part

“I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.”

Trying I Can Ideas Form Common Study Common Sense

Author:Marquis de Lafayette

“I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.”

People Feels Trying Example Comfortable Elegant Frugality

Author:Amory Lovins

“I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.”

People Knows Trying Mind Mean Fantasy Things To Do Frustrating Frustrating Things

Author:Sydney Pollack

“We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.”

Trying Real Humanity Understanding Realizing Communication Reaching Reach Out Real Knowledge

Author:Mira Nair

“The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can’t.”

Ifs World Trying Mind Stories Lying Patterns Meaningful Storytelling Uncertainty Factories Coincidence Find Me True Story Randomness Allergic

Book:The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

Source: The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

“Search marketing, and most Internet marketing in fact, can be very threatening because there are no rules. There’s no safe haven. To do it right, you need to be willing to be wrong. But search marketing done right is all about being wrong. Experimentation is the only way. No one really knows whether that page will rank #1 in Google; no one really knows which paid search copy will get the highest click rate. Even experts can’t tell you which content will attract the most links. You just have to try it and see.”

“Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or you? What’s causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. It’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. We might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind.”

Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

“So robots are good at very simple things like cleaning the floor, like doing a repetitive task. Our robots have a little tiny bit of common sense. Our robots know that if they've got something in their hand and they drop it, it's gone. They shouldn't go and try and put it down.”

Ifs Knows Trying Littles Hands Bits Simple Common Gone Tasks Tiny Common Sense Robots Cleaning Simple Things Repetitive

Author:Rodney Brooks

“I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up?”

Thinking Trying Wake Up Jackie

Author:Ken Burns

“What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no reason — instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, it’s the postmodern institutions . . . those are the indifferent gods.”

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