- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying Quotes
Sometimes the effort matters more than the outcome.
This collection finds humor and sincerity in the act of trying - baseball becoming enjoyable again only after quitting the attempt to play it, and a small reading ritual used to get through a demanding project. Related reading in I Am Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings in the world.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film scores are complicated puzzles that you need to figure out and solve very quickly, or else you're basically fired. You're hired to enhance the film and you only have a couple tries to prove that you are capable of that task. I can keep trying to enhance my album ad infinitum.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me everything is a material, and everything is subject to change. When I work with found sounds, I'm trying to figure out how do I make this come from me?
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an immigrant justice advocate, I, of course, want legal status for everyone trying to make it in this country.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!
- Lonely
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020