Trying Quotes - Page 578

I'm not here to cast aspersions on anyone. I'm trying to unify the party, not find fault.

The fact is, is that Americans don't hate their Muslim neighbors. They don't hate their Latino neighbors. We have got to build human solidarity in this country, because human solidarity is what's going to allow us to come together to protect our democracy and to protect our economy. So reject the hate. Turn it away. Don't buy it. And reach out to a neighbor. Trump is trying to sow division so that he can distract us from what he's doing to us.

Trump is trying to tell all of us Americans that we are our own problem, not him. And that's not true. He's the problem.

In fact, when you try to use [Hans Rosling] data to predict the future, all sorts of problems arise. But what it does do is say, hey, just catch your breath a minute and see what's really been going on. We do have reason to feel good about the fact we've made progress.

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.

When I look back at my paintings, they don't give me a sense of where I was when I first met that guy. They don't give me a sense of what I felt like when I first saw that original source material. They give me a sense of the world that I'm trying to create. And we all just have to deal with that.

I would imagine that what you try to do is to - is to be as sensitive to the environment that surrounds you as possible. As you see, my work has become increasingly global. My presence in the world has become increasingly global.

There are things you won't know unless you try to find out. it's possible to notice things without seeming to. You're not a kid who doesn't know what a word says unless someone tells him. And how many years have you gone on living like that?

I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.

I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.

Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

I'm definitely not trying to be, or am, a poster child for anything so structured. But I do have my own personal faith most definitely.

They think that I was like Amy Grant, when actually no! The label went bankrupt and maybe sold a couple hundred records and that's about it. I was just trying different things.

I feel like I have a little bit of a fresh ear when creating music. I'm not trying to be like anything else, cuz I have no idea what anything else is like!

I'm not coming out trying to prove anything to anyone, like, 'Oh, I'm in assless chaps!' or 'I can't be tamed!' I've already been through that phase. I started at 23, you know?

Many people think I try to be like Lady Gaga but what they don't know is that I'm a Britney Spears wanna be.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around, trying to figure out how to dance to this music, watching some girl in some hot pants, trying little ways to learn her movements.

Republican governors trying to suppress the vote.

I just want people to understand that life is very short. Never judge someone. I was judged in the court of public opinion. And I'm really just on earth to make things better. I goof around, but I always try pay it forward.

It's really hard not to think too much. If I try to control the sled too much so that I have perfect lines, I'm really slow.

I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell.

I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.

Rich folk don't try so hard