- 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
- Ball
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Club culture is about leaving your cares behind, and I am trying to create that environment.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just trying to humanise situations and represent voices that aren't being represented.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was making the 'Fast and Furious' movies, I wasn't trying to make a 'Fast and Furious' movie.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020