Always Trying Quotes - Page 13

• I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?" How can I understand myself as a cultural creature as well as an individual? I'm really obsessed with that question, and always asking my students to consider it.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Asking, Students, Individual

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• To me, being brave is an element that is so important with stand-up comedy. It's not essential. There are many comics who were just funny, and that's fine, too. But that's never been what I was trying to do in comedy. I was always trying to do something that involved not pandering to the audience.

  Bill Maher

  Brave, Important, Essentials

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Everyday

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

  K'naan

  Thinking, Artist, Two

  "Discovery: K’Naan" by Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 27, 2012.

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• I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.

  Billy Joel

  Player, Voice, Piano

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• I'm always trying to complicate things. For some reason I'll go, "Well, maybe I can get that in," and stuff like that. I always make it really hard for myself.

  Jim Carrey

  Stuff, Reason, Wells

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• I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.

  Yoko Ono

  Ambition, Simple, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm actually not a very good driver, to be honest with you. I'm a scatterbrain driver. I'm not very focused. I'm always trying to find the right music station or put on a new CD or trying to eat something.

  Lauren Lee Smith

  Cds, Honest, Very Good

  "The fruit of Lauren Lee Smith's labour". Interview with Petrina Gentile, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 13, 2011.

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• I was very preppy in my childhood. I also went through an anti-clothing moment where I just wanted to wear sweats because I'd just moved to Canada. My mom was always trying to get me into proper clothes, but I never wanted to wear them, and now that's all I wear.

  Jason Wu

  Mom, Clothes, Sweat

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don't have an innovative company [team], coming to work everyday to find a better way, you don't have a company[team]. You're getting ready to die on the vine. You're always looking for the next innovation, the next niche, the next product improvement, the next service improvement. But always trying to get better.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Innovation, Everyday

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• I'm always trying to make movies. It's what I love to do more than anything. I love to write and direct.

  Frank Whaley

  Writing, Trying, Direct

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You're always trying to motivate your players. There's a time and a place for a speech that would try to motivate your players, especially if as a coach you knew that the cards were stacked against you a little bit.

  Vince Kehres

  Player, Cards, Speech

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

  Stephen King

  Home, Men, Opposites

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.569, Anchor

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• You're always trying to seize any opportunity or hold on to one if you already have it. It was just a matter of going out there and producing for the team.

  Jose Bautista

  Team, Opportunity, Going Out

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• I'm always trying to get my mind at peace. I know I hit my best when everything is chill.

  Cliff Floyd

  Mind, Chill, Knows

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• Defensive backs are always trying to kill me, so I'm trying to get them first.

  Hines Ward

  Firsts, Kill Me, Defensive Backs

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• I'm always looking for vacation. I'm always trying to step away from it to watch movies. I'm always trying to carve out free time for myself. But, I love it. I don't think I've ever not wanted to run a show. When I have a show, I'm always really excited. I always enjoy the process.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Running, Thinking, Vacation

  Source: collider.com

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• I think you're just always trying to find really great, interesting female roles. That's the thing for me. You do have to think about what you're signing up for.

  Georgina Haig

  Thinking, Interesting, Female

  Source: collider.com

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• I found myself in network always trying to play catch up because once things get going there's no time to fix this and that. And also the writing, it was more inclined to be by committee in network which drowns out the purity and the voice of the show.

  Dennis Quaid

  Writing, Play, Voice

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.

  Cliff Martinez

  Thinking, Years, Break

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• If you are always trying to do something great and different and fresh, lots of them are going to be shut down for lots of stupid or good reasons, but you have to keep on trying.

  Lee Clow

  Stupid, Different, Reason

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• I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if I'm literally the first person to ever write a book.

  Miranda July

  Book, Writing, Done

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• I think I'm always trying to challenge myself. I'm definitely going a new direction and trying to write more concisely, but that's the toughest part for me and I definitely think I'm growing in that way, which feels exciting.

  Stacey King

  Writing, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hands, Soul, Despair

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• I went to the University of Toronto for a year, and I'm always trying to get across what university is really like.

  Scott Speedman

  Years, Toronto, University

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