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If she were alive today, she would be ashamed of me. I'm trying to change that.

The Best of Evil

Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

Blue Nights

Another note to self; turn cellphone to silent when you’re trying to be sneaky.

Bad Luck Officer

If my semen had chunks of crumbled brick in it, would you use yogurt to try to impregnate your fireplace?  

Brick

Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.

Bitterblue

I'm just trying not to have a Tom Cruise moment […] He was having a very Tom Cruise moment

A Beautiful Wedding

I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood.

Anthony Browne

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

George Saunders

In 2000, I realized I had reached that certain age when the parts get scarcer. So I decided to try my hand at directing.

Peter Riegert

My mother at the age of 65 decided she was going to run for mayor. She had never run for public office, and she decided she wanted to try and do some things for the community.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.

Alva Noto

I know a lot of people who transitioned and dropped out of society for two years. They don't talk to anybody. They become hermits. They try to do everything alone.

Candis Cayne

Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.

Howard Hawks

The hurried can become unhurried. But it will not happen by trying alone, nor will it happen instantly. You will have to enter a life of training.

John Ortberg

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

Paramahansa Yogananda

It's true, most of my days are spent alone in a dark room! I don't really want anyone to see me trying and failing to nail the 40th take of a simple piano cue.

Steven Price

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

John Cusack

But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.

Shannyn Sossamon

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

Brian Eno

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.

Benmont Tench