Always Trying Quotes - Page 5

• I think parenting well is not so different than trying to consider how to be successful at any relationship. Like, how do you partner well? How do you collaborate well? How do we have this conversation well? You know, you're always trying to figure out what "well" means, so I think parenting is another version of that.

  Ira Sachs

  Mean, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm always trying to have a good time on set because that's when things happen. That's when you're playful.

  Susan Sarandon

  Good Times, Having A Good Time, Happens

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• I always had an intelligence with me, I was always in the streets, I was always trying to do good. I was always looking for something to guide me. In the beginning church wasn't it.

  Rakim

  Church, Guides, Guide Me

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• What we do wrong with teenagers is we talk down to you instead of treating you as equals. Adults complain that you're not good listeners but really, adults are not listening to what you're trying to tell us. We're always trying to give you advice. We should treat you with lots of respect and dignity and groom you to be future leaders.

  Deepak Chopra

  Teenager, Giving, Leader

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I'm always trying to challenge everyone to raise the game on the artistic level. We are supposed to be the best. Make sure we don't get complacent or comfortable, and always trying to push the limit on trying to write great songs. At the end of the day it's why we do what we do.

  Michael W. Smith

  Song, Writing, Games

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I don't [even] know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems like every generation is always trying to come to terms with Lincoln.

  Eric Foner

  Book, Numbers, Twelve

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them.

  Al Pacino

  Summer, Sleep, Air

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• In my personal and spiritual life, I reject that. I don't believe in that. I'm always trying to get my mind into a less judgmental place, making less rigid judgments about things like "perverse" versus "pure." But in terms of prose, those sorts of oppositions seem to work.

  George Saunders

  Spiritual, Believe, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.

  George Saunders

  Fiction, Littles, Theory

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was never comfortable because I was always trying to wear what was trendy, but it never felt right on my body or in my skin. It felt wrong. I was finally like, hey, fashion and style can be just about self-expresession, about what makes you feel stylish.

  Ariana Grande

  Fashion, Self, Style

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I come from a place of darkness when I write because I'm always trying to figure things out. It's kind of like my own therapy when I write music. It's me working through my own problems hopefully. And putting it into a song.

  Skylar Grey

  Song, Writing, Darkness

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to keep the flow of love in place. In that sense, he turned the world on its head.

  Cornel West

  Kings, People, World

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I'm always trying to change things - change my character, change my look, change my hair, change my facial hair, change my costumes, or implement different jackets or catchphrases. I try to keep myself fresh.

  Chris Jericho

  Character, Hair, Different

  Source: www.wwe.com

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• I really love James Joyce, Dubliners and other work. And I was interested in the way the dash was used in English topography - in his work particularly - and I realized there was no compulsion to use those ugly dot-dot curlicues all over the place to designate dialogue. I began to look around, and found writers who could make transitions quite clear by the language itself. I'm a bit of a maverick now. I'm always trying to push the medium.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Topography, Transition, Looks

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• With political means and always trying to work for political settlements and this is what I'm going to continue to work on with all my heart.

  Angela Merkel

  Heart, Mean, Political

  Source: time.com

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• We shouldn't assume that government is always trying to do the wrong thing.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Assuming, Wrong Things

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sometimes, a new toy, a new technology, will focus you. The world is always trying to draw you out, so you always have to remember to go in.

  Russell Simmons

  Technology, Focus, World

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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  We're always trying to do a better job on that and that's what we'll continue to do.

  Bill Belichick

  Jobs, Trying, Better Jobs

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• All of a sudden people in the United States start to realize that vaccines make a difference. The controversy and the myth that's there, we're always trying to bust through that. So when I see a disease outbreak, I say to myself, "OK, that'll get people realizing how lucky we are to have vaccines."

  Melinda Gates

  Vaccines, Differences, People

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• I'm always trying to look for how I can find human stories that aren't just dramas.

  Ethan Hawke

  Drama, Looks, Stories

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I wouldn't be myself if I weren't always trying to be someone else. I only have so much time on this earth and I want to be as many people as possible.

  Heidi Julavits

  People, Earth, Want

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• As you get older you don't want to just do the same thing, otherwise there's not much point. I think it's more or less trying to write things that, perhaps, say more by doing
  less, or you're always trying to refine things, make things a little simpler, a little more essential.

  Colin Hay

  Writing, Thinking, Essentials

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• In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with the world, the nation and me, but I'm always trying to push the form, too, without being too obvious that I'm trying to push the form.

  Kiese Laymon

  Writing, Connections, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think we're always trying to avoid tropes. And I think that "Game of Thrones" has almost made killing people a cliche. For us, it wasn't about that. For six episodes, it's hard to invest in people, and I think when you kill a main character on television it really needs to mean something. So we certainly had talked about that, and I think we managed to juggle the ball to make a gripping, interesting and compelling finale. We feel that we didn't have to go there at this point because we had such few episodes.

  Miles Millar

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When I was a kid, I was always around boys. I was always trying to keep up with boys - skateboarding and snowboarding. If my brother was mowing the lawn, I had to mow the lawn. If my brother was using a hammer, I needed to use a hammer. I've always been a little bit of a feminist.

  Daria Werbowy

  Brother, Kids, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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