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• It does seem that a fantasy, working out in its own terms, stretching you beyond the normal concerns of your own life, gains you a peculiar charge of energy which inexplicably enriches you. At least, this is my ideal of a fantasy, and I am always trying to write it.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Writing, Work Out, Energy

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• In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.

  Greta Scacchi

  Sexy, Attention, Facts

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• In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Children, Parent

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• I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.

  Christopher Lambert

  Character, Action, Sensitive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.

  Franz Kafka

  Trying, Bones, Inexplicable

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• Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Firsts, Helping, Virtue

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• People tend to have one of three 'styles' of interaction. There are takers, who are always trying to serve themselves; matchers, who are always trying to get equal benefit for themselves and others; and givers, who are always trying to help people.

  Adam Grant

  People, Style, Three

  "Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success". Book by Adam Grant, www.businessinsider.com. 2013.

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• I found happiness when I realized that as imperfect as I may be, I am the perfect Nick Vujicic. I am God's creation, designed according to His plan for me. That's not to say there isn't room for improvement. I'm always trying to be better so I can better serve Him and the world!

  Nick Vujicic

  Found Happiness, Perfect, World

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• I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in. When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.

  Josh Hartnett

  Unique, Games, Vision

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• I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the work as I'm making it. I'm always trying to create beauty, reveal hope, show the sense of longing that exists in isolation and loneliness, and capture the search for something greater inside all of my subjects.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Beauty, Photography, Hope

  "Creating Photographic Art - Exclusive Interview With Gregory Crewdson". Interview with David Geffin, fstoppers.com. October 11, 2014.

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• Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Moving, People, Laughing

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• It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.

  T. E. Brown

  College, Wish, Looks

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• I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

  James Rosenquist

  Trying

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• I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

  Steve Forbert

  Song, Writing, Play

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• Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.

  Jeff Garcia

  Sports, Growing Up, Thinking

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• If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

  Lynn Abbey

  Writing, Ideas, Answers

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• People with a scarcity mentality think there is only so much in the world to go around. It's as if they see life as a pie. When another person gets a big piece, then they get less. Such people are always trying to get even, to pull others down to their level so they can get an equal or even bigger piece of the pie.

  Stephen Covey

  Thinking, Pie, People

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• You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Understanding, Balance, Needs

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• There is a fixation in the human mind for structures, because in a structured life one feels secure, one knows where one is, one knows where one stands in relationship to the other. It seems that because man is born in the womb of the mother and for nine months remains in a structure, that continues deep down in the psyche - and man is always trying to find a structure somewhere.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Mother, Men

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• ...chess is "a lot like football because you have to set up your offense and your defense, every once in a while you need to give up a piece of your team in order to make the big play. It's a game of patience, and that pretty much defines how I run the ball. I'm patient, always looking for the opportunity and always trying to capitalize on the other person's mistake."

  Priest Holmes

  Sports, Football, Running

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• I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

  Anthony Doerr

  Fun, School, Maturity

  "Off the Page" with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.

  Phil Silvers

  Littles, Stealing, Scene

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• I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

  Dana Delany

  Horse, People, Reason

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• I play a lot of Playstation, and always trying to look pretty for the girls.

  Freddy Adu

  Girl, Play, Looks

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• I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

  Carla Gugino

  Successful, Thinking, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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