Trying Quotes

You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.

I'm not really trying to break the bank like some other people. I just want what's fair.

I'm not trying to say that people don't have the right opinion but I have to live my life. And I'm living it and I'm loving it.

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive.

Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

The hardest part has been maintaining a small head and remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are.

With a sequel you're always trying to get bigger and better.

... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.

Once we start shooting, it's in there. You're trying to get into a place where you rise to the work, rather than make it manageable or make it work for you.

I'd rather lose a game trying to win it, than lose it trying not to get beat

I will leave no stone unturned in my quest - and that quest will be relentless - to try and get Liverpool back on the map again as a successful football club.

Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!"

I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.

Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

Russia right now is searching for its soul. It's trying to figure out what it really is.

No, actually I'm trying to stay away from the big screen.

[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what's best in it and make it work. That's what it was like.

I try to do as much as I can. I probably knew more about Earl Mills than anybody on earth besides people who actually knew him.

The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.

It's like my characters, all my men are Dad and me in a mess; all my female characters are smart and hopeful, like Mom just trying to make the best of things.

What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.

Everyone wants to know what kind of music their favorite artist listens to. It feels good to. I don't try to dwell on that too much though.

I'm an obvious example of how everyone is spiraling out of control on the show and just trying to live life the best they can without destroying themselves.

I'm trying to be a little bit more mature about my choices and think about what I want to direct next, instead of just jumping into a movie 'cause I want to do it.

I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that in my work.

I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.

Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium?

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of 'what else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?'

A big ego isn't necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

You do not see fairies through the eyes, you see them through the heart and that took me a long time to learn because I was always trying to see them through my eyes.

I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they're trying to inject into a story.

I know a lot of directors have a whole staff of people trying to find their next film for them. I always just end up writing mine.

We try to keep it a classy show, but it certainly is blue at times. And it all depends on the audience, sometimes we've have audiences that don't really want us to go too far in that direction.

But if everybody's trying to stay safe, then you never really create something new and different and surprising.

I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to make mistakes.

So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera.

So that's the challenge, you have a big technical aspect of what you're doing whilst you're creatively trying to improvise.

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?" Nico: "Try not to die.

Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?

It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.

What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.

I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.

I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.