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• I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

  Janet Malcolm

  Art, Interesting, Snapshots

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• He's just always positive. He's always smiling and he's always trying.

  Richard Pryor

  Trying, Always Smile

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• By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention.

  Georges Bataille

  Men, Attention, Her Beauty

  Georges Bataille (1962). “Erotism”, p.131, City Lights Books

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• For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing. That's important to me, in any work I do.

  Aneurin Barnard

  Character, Keys, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think what a waste of energy. If people want to believe in this god, or that god, that's fine by me, believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

  Conor McGregor

  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• You're always trying to look for material that is as challenging as possible, so that's why I like stuff where the characters go through the most difficult times they've ever had in their life. It makes me push myself further and learn more about myself.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Character, Challenges, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor.

  Rockne S. O'Bannon

  Drama, Levels, Emotion

  Source: collider.com

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• Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Different, Stories, Filmmaking

  Source: collider.com

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• You know, I'm a total perfectionist, and I labor over trying to get things right. Whether we're putting together an opening for the Masters broadcast or when I was writing with my friend Eli Stillman a book about my dad called 'Always By My Side,' I'm always trying to find a way to do something better.

  Jim Nantz

  Dad, Book, Writing

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• I try to get on stage whenever I can. I'm always trying to be involved in the theater, doing something on stage, whenever I have downtime. I'm always looking for it.

  Scott Bakula

  Downtime, Theater, Stage

  "Scott Bakula Talks BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, Working with Steven Soderbergh, Why the Film Landed at HBO, BASMATI BLUES, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 26, 2013.

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• What I believe in is being transparent and truthful and always trying to get the facts right. People will make their own judgment of whether or not they want to trust you based on how transparent you are with them and the principles that you bring to the game.

  Jeremy Scahill

  Believe, Games, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm always trying to pop up in different genres, what interests me. Sometimes I just like to throw myself into new situations to see what it feel like.

  Dylan McDermott

  Different, Sometimes, Genre

  Source: collider.com

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• I was born a Love Goddess. My parents, Caesar and Joanne, always told me that I was a little Goddess and Petite Flower. I was a Petite Flower, and I had all these brothers who were always trying to boss me around. I told them, "No. You must kiss my hand or kiss my feet". That's how I became the Goddess.

  Judy Tenuta

  Brother, Flower, Kissing

  Source: popgeeks.net

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• I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Poetic, Essays, Property

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

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• Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard for me, what I haven't done in the past.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Writing, Past

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• Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants to spread everything out. And we're constantly trying to hold everything in.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Want, Empires, Accumulation

  "Don of the Dirtbags: An Interview with Yvon Chouinard". The Vertical Interview, theusualmontauk.com. October 22, 2016.

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• I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

  Michael Pitt

  Too Much, Scripts, Sometimes

  "Michael Pitt Plays Haneke's Games". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. March 20, 2008.

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• As a kid, I would do all of the plays at my school, and I was notorious for being in five numbers in one show. I'd go onstage, run backstage for a wardrobe change, and then go back out onstage. I'm always trying to do more than I should but when I got my lucky break (or whatever it's called), I was prepared because I studied and worked really hard for it.

  Chrissie Fit

  Running, School, Kids

  "Meet Chrissie Fit: The Latina Actress Twirling Through Hollywood - Literally". Interview with Lyndsay Green, www.glamour.com. July 30, 2015.

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• In real conversations, we are always trying to outguess each other.

  William Poundstone

  Real, Conversation, Real Conversation

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.56, Macmillan

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

  Breckin Meyer

  Bigger And Better, Sequels, Trying

  "Jennifer Love Hewitt and Breckin Meyer Get Furry With Garfield". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. June 15, 2006.

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• I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.

  Mike Weir

  Brother, Golf, Two

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• If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.

  Jessie Ware

  Passion, Winning, People

  "Jessie Ware: 'I want to be a private pop star, like Sade or Annie Lennox'" by Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2012.

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• I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.

  K. D. Lang

  Perfect, Producers, Vocal

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• My schedule can be hectic, so I'm always trying to find time to see my friends and family.

  Jessica Szohr

  Hectic Schedule, Family And Friends, Schedules

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

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• I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.

  Scott Pelley

  Interesting, Interviews, Impossible

  "Scott Pelley Slams Fox News Over Mark Owen Reveal, Wants to Interview the Pope". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2013.

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