“There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.” KnowsTryingHas BeensI CanSchoolLosesPeriodsHigh SchoolToughGainsWeightCarefulBe CarefulFreshmanAfter High SchoolLife After High School Author:Camilla Luddington
“I am the god of being messy - I'm trying to get better. I was terrible in my 20s. My kids are much tidier than I am, I don't know where they get it from, maybe their mother.” KnowsTryingKidsMotherTerribleGet BetterMessyBeing Me Author:Kevin McKidd
“I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.” KnowsTryingMeanFocusFameFleeting Author:Taylor Momsen
“You know, we're very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There's things that people assume a lot of times, and we understand that people are interested, but we really try to keep our family life private as much as we can.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingAssumingOur FamilyPrivacyFamily Life Author:Tim McGraw
“There were certain people who were out to get me. I know who those people were. They exist, believe me. They know that I know. They spent millions of dollars in order to try to get rid of me. I'm happy they lost most of their money.” PeopleKnowsTryingBelieveCertainOrderLostMillionsDollarsBelieve In Me Author:Ehud Olmert
“I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.” KnowsTryingBodyEuropeDrinkingBottlesPillsAbsinthe Author:Jack Osbourne
“The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh. I think there's an element of that in there.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantTryingWellsSchoolLaughingElementsHarderCuteRelyShyHanging OutMaking People Laugh Author:Kaitlin Olson
“Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingForgetCollegeConsensusGoing To College Author:Larisa Oleynik
“I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.” KnowsTryingKnow HowWeaknessCooksDecentServing Author:Patrice O'Neal
“It's great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn't start off so great it's not that big a deal: everybody's baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going? What's the story we're trying to tell?” IfsKnowsWantTryingStoriesBigsOpportunityGivenBornDealsBabyUglyPilots Author:Timothy Olyphant
“Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.” PeopleKnowsTryingToo MuchListeningGrewGrew UpRootsPunkEmphasis Author:Will Oldham
“I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.” ThinkingKnowsWayWritingTryingSeemsPiecesInfluenceParticularDegreesDetermineAdmireInputCounterproductive Author:Kevin Powers
“A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.” PeopleKnowsTryingYearsWellsCharacterFeelingsMightJournalistListenersGood Writers Author:Louise Penny
“All can hear that still small voice within. Try it. Be still and know that the I AM within you is God, the Beloved. Listen... then live by it.” KnowsTryingStillsGodVoiceBelovedLive ByWithin YouSmall Voice Book:God Spoke to Me Source: God Spoke to Me
“It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can't. A 'Highlander' movie is basically my thing. What I'm attempting to do is develop my ability as an actor and try to be the best I can be in the fantasy/action genre.” KnowsTryingMayI CanActionActorsCan DoAbilityMistakeFantasyLimitationGenreBeing The BestCan NotAttemptingDe NiroHighlander Author:Christopher Lambert
“I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.” ThinkingKnowsTryingBodySpiritBreakPicksTraditionalExplanationDemonBreaking DownTake Control Author:Oren Peli
“I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.” KnowsTryingBigsBrainBreakSawsFootballHeroMetsBeatsEnglandStudiosDrunkScotlandMy HeroRefrigeratorsFootball Match Author:Andy Partridge
“Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and "must have-once-been-beautiful" begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.” IfsKnowsTryingStillsI CanHardAgeBeautifulAttentionFiveCuttingCeaseForty Author:Paulina Porizkova
“I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.” ThinkingKnowsTryingFirstsIdeasActorsLaughingPretentiousHave A Laugh Author:Rosamund Pike
“I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?” ThinkingKnowsTryingSoundExistenceBandMature Author:Adam Rich
“I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.” KnowsTryingEnoughKnow HowRapGood EnoughNot Good Enough Author:Dee Dee Ramone
“I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.” KnowsGivingTryingI CanWholeFacesNamesMemoriesNiceStreetsConversationCome UpHeyBecause I CanHorrificOverdriveNice To See You Author:Eddie Redmayne
“The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that.” KnowsWorldTryingDangerousWeaponsIraqNuclearBombsDevicesNuclear WeaponsMissilesDangerous Things Author:Scott Ritter
“You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory' before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.” IfsKnowsTryingDoneWholeMomentsDreamGamesMemoriesWhole LifeThat Moment Author:Wayne Rooney
“The early seasons of 'The Simpsons' had a great deal of heart. That's what I'm trying to pull from, the kind of stuff that goes straight to kids' hearts. When they're watching, they don't necessarily know why they love something.” KnowsTryingHeartKindKidsStuffDealsSeasons Author:Fred Seibert
“You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a great writer!” KnowsTryingKindI CanUsedWonderMonthsSixSix MonthsGreat WritersFreestyle Author:Bubba Sparxxx
“I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantGivingTryingShowsSpeakLove IsHarderCelebrateThese DaysMuch Love Author:Emeli Sande
“Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist?” KnowsWantTryingShowsHomeActorsLeftTalkingWeekCrewPerfectionistHanging AroundLeft HandedFussy Author:Eric Stoltz
“I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantNeedsFeelsTryingMatterAbleGuyPlayerResponseStriveCoachesKnow It All Author:Gordon Strachan
“I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it’s just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it’s stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.” KnowsTryingHelpingHonestSingingHelp MeStay True Author:Jamie Foxx
“There's a real difference between venture capitalism and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism we like. Vulture capitalism, no. And the fact of the matter is that he's going to have to face up to this at some time or another, and South Carolina is as good a place to draw that line in the sand as any.” KnowsTryingRealMatterStatesDoneFactsUseProblemJobsFacesPresidentDifferencesLinesUnitedUnited StatesKnow HowRepublicanPaperDrawsCapitalismSouthSandTexasVentureCarolinaSouth CarolinaVultureLines In The Sand Author:Rick Perry
“It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.” PeopleKnowsTryingHumansDreamNatureHuman BeingsBuddhismDistracted Author:Frederick Lenz
“Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many of them. That's why - you know that's why I started talking about it, so that they didn't hear just the terrible stories.” PeopleKnowsTryingYearsStoriesAmericaFacesTalkingGoneCoupleTerribleRight NowDilemmaThrough The Years Author:Joan Lunden
“You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.” IfsKnowsTryingIdeasEndsHateFallFunEmotionMediaLike YouNo IdeaHaving FunThe End Of The DayTidesDarlingAnd At The End Of The Day Author:Regina Spektor
“So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.” ThinkingKnowsTryingLooksLittlesPlayFilmFeltBitsActingCareersKnow HowLittle BitManageShellsShocked Author:Lea Thompson
“For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.” KnowsWritingTryingHeartRealCharacterRelatePerformersBeing Real Author:Uma Thurman
“From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.” KnowsShouldTryingStuffActingPerspectiveProjectsAmbitious Author:Michael Urie
“I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.” ThinkingKnowsWantTryingWellsI CanDoneActorsSonMinisters Author:Barry Watson
“That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.” KnowsTryingDifferentEndsSongChallengesGrowing UpGrowingWonderfulTalentSongwriters Author:Margaret Whiting
“I was trying to be appreciative for the education I had, for the sacrifices my parents made. I was very interested in perfect attendance, OK, and straight A's and, you know, dean's list, because those I think were worthwhile, you know, endeavors. And it was important to spend my time in that way and become well-rounded.” ThinkingKnowsWayTryingWellsMadeImportantParentPerfectSacrificeListsMy TimeEndeavorWorthwhileDeanAppreciativeWell RoundedAttendance Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle
“I gotta get working, you know? I've been too busy. I've been trying my hardest, but it's really tough.” KnowsTryingToughBusyHardestToo BusyTrying My Hardest Author:Christy Carlson Romano
“Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of mind.” KnowsInspirationalNeedsTryingMindDifferentStatesBuddhismCommunicateState Of Mind Author:Frederick Lenz
“God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.” PeopleKnowsWantWritingTryingYearsHumansHeartHas BeensBookNaturalSecretThousandPreservesContributionThousand YearsHuman HeartNatural History Author:August Strindberg
“Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are.” ThinkingKnowsTryingInspirationMotivationCrazyCancerPreservesNervesHealthcareSurgery Author:Nguyen Quyen
“I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?” KnowsTryingSoundGoalOne DayUltimateClicheUltimate GoalOne Day At A TimeTake It One Day At A Time Author:Nastia Liukin
“I've always been honest with all my kids. So I - if they did well, they did well. And if they didn't, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can't make you go out there and work out hard.” IfsKnowsTryingWellsI CanHardKidsHonestWork OutBeing HonestTry Your Best Author:Ryan Lochte
“Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.” IfsKnowsTryingStoriesFormCoursesCrimeEntertainment Author:Steig Larsson
“For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingLongKidsAgeFightingFeltParentProveLong TimeAdultsTreatedPeersCockySavvy Author:Ezra Miller
“The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.” KnowsWantTryingReasonChanceSecretScrutinyGlare Author:Jesse Metcalfe
“I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I'm aware of the landscape. I'm a competitor, so I have to know whom I'm competing with.” KnowsTryingYearsTwoShowsPaperLandscapeEpisodesCompetingPapersCompetitorsSurfingSurfSurfing The Web Author:Leslie Moonves