“I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.” WantTryingKindMomentsEnergyCrazyLike YouMomAmountRidiculousDrivingGymnasticsDrive Me Crazy Author:Alicia Sacramone
“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
“On a daily basis, jeans and t-shirt is still sexy, but it doesn't look like you're trying too hard.” TryingLooksStillsHardLike YouBasesSexyShirtsJeansT ShirtTrying Too Hard Author:Tila Tequila
“I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.” WantTryingHumansEndsAudienceFansLike YouPerformancesHeyEmpoweringThe End Of The DayHanging Out Author:Kate Voegele
“If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.” PeopleIfsFeelsTryingPassionWinningLike YouSouthLondonAlways TryingUnderdog Author:Jessie Ware
“Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes!” ThinkingTryingScienceChallengesFrontsIgnoranceLike YouStandingScientistWeightInnovationStormIgnorantGiantsScholarAntsCrushedChicksGoatsResistingRoaringVolcanoesFree ThinkingObstinateMules Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“For me, its like go ahead and eat. Live your life. I mean, I've just seen so much death, you know, as of late, being in my 40s, of people getting sick or, you know, whatever, that I just feel like, you know what? You never know with life. Eat. Enjoy yourself. Just try to be healthy and, you know, and watch it.” PeopleKnowsFeelsTryingMeanEnjoyWatchesLike YouHealthyLateSickLive Your LifeEnjoy Yourself Author:Debi Mazar
“The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.” TryingFirstsSoundLike YouBandFirst TimeBoxesSpendingIntenseChecksWowInitialsNarcotics Author:Ian MacKaye
“I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.” NeedsFeelsWritingTryingI CanThreeHoursWeekTheoryLike YouDistractionDefenceProcrastinatingSpades Author:Markus Zusak
“There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe.” FeelsTryingSometimesLike YouShoesNails Author:George R. R. Martin
“I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.” FeelsTryingKindSometimesLike YouSympathetic Author:Charlize Theron
“I try to have a balance of things you like and things you don't like about a character. But once you start that, all these scripts are like, "You play the douchebag friend of Ashton Kutcher." It's all these characters that are overconfident or hyper-masculine.” TryingPlayCharacterLike YouBalanceScriptsMasculineHyperOverconfidentThings You LikeDouchebags Author:Jemaine Clement
“Don't create a plastic image of what it is to be spiritual and try to become it. You won't be capable of it and that will frustrate you. Even if you could do it, if it's not really what you're like, you'll be miserable.” IfsTryingSpiritualLike YouCapableIntentionMiserablePlastic Author:Frederick Lenz
“I don't feel any pressure at all because I don't care. That's an occupational hazard... but if you're doing anything of any worth, and not doing something that's safe and anodyne and trying to be populist and a national treasure, then you've got to assume that as many people hate what you do - and you - as like what you do and like you.” PeopleIfsFeelsTryingCareHateLike YouSafePressureAssumingDon't CareTreasureI Don't CareHazardsPopulistNational TreasureOccupational Hazards Author:Ricky Gervais
“Live like your always trying to impress someone” TryingLike YouImpressAlways Trying Author:Shawn Mendes
“When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am. Why I'm here. My moms and my brother and my old man. I can just think about the character's life and try and figure out what's gonna happen. Plus when you're in a group home you pretty much can't go anywhere, right? But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.” IfsThinkingMenWorldWayFeelsTryingDoeI CanBookCharacterHomeHappensMy OwnGroupsFiguresAdventureBrotherLike YouMomMadFollowingMy MomMy BrotherPlusOld ManMy Own LifeMain CharactersNerdy Author:Matt de la Pena
“This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.” MenTryingMatterCharacterExistenceLike YouScholarMosesOld Time Author:Ahad Ha'am
“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.” ShouldTryingSelfActorsEasyForeverLike YouPrideSelf LoveWho You AreSingularityLike 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
“Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides.” PeopleTryingBelieveSeemsTogetherLike YouBrokenScaredCompareScrewed UpClingy Author:Anne Lamott