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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.
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I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
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I take a lot of satisfaction in trying to make my land as self-contained as possible, its own little mini environment. Minimal outputs; minimal inputs.
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Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.
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The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.
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There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.
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I'm still trying to find the actor I want to be, but I know what kind of the talent I want to be around.
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We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
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I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.
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I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.
- Nov 07, 2020