Trying Quotes - Page 705

I'm trying to go to places where people wouldn't normally, to try to get some new fans.

I didn't have nothing handed to me. It's a hard, long road getting to where I'm at. And I think the fans that have been down with me for a long time, they see that. They've been seeing me clawing my way to try to get to the top.

The point of Silicon Valley at least when I moved here was we're all trying to do stuff and none of us quite felt like we fit in anywhere else. But we were all trying to do good things. And the money was just the byproduct of good things. The idea that there's an obligation to have that thing happen in four years or five years or six years, I think we need to disavow that.

If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup then you are in a very precarious and difficult position. You need to grow through profitability.

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

There are so many people in pain because of the Syrian conflict. Ten million trying to live in camps that are barely set up for three.

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the messy material conditions of trying to make a living while doing that work.

People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.

As an actor, you're kind of aware of everything, or you try to be, so you take in certain habits or find certain things, such as how someone sits or how demure they are. You get those things about everybody.

I did everything I could to not bring in any of the - any of the technical things I got from classical into jazz. And I did everything to really base it on my speaking voice and to just not try to make it sound pretty.

I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i'm trying it out.

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

I think I'm plain. I'm normal. I'm plain. I try not to stand out. I don't wear colors.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

I may be the first actress to admit that beauty doesn't hold you back. I think beauty is a gift that you have to make the most of. I've worked hard at trying to look my best.

Epicurus thought that friendship and conviviality, which require present attention rather than being in an alcoholic stupor, as well as trying to understand and explain things, were the greatest sources of satisfaction in life, so there go most drugs.

I like to tell myself that truth is in the irregularity and the unexpected, and I try to look for both.

If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill?

Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible.

As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people. You search for those projects and you hope to realize the potential in a project.

I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe.

Never lose sight of what you're trying to say, and remain open to what's happening while you're filming.

And if you ever - and I do mean ever - try to leave me, I’m goin’ with you.