Trying Quotes - Page 26

• A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.

  Kelly Jones

  Giving, Sometimes, Audience

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• Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

  Abdul Qadeer Khan

  Roots, Hatred, Violence

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• I'm trying to set out the passion and complexity of this sport. Many people think it's a dumb activity: stand on the gas and turn left. In fact, it's probably one of the most complex sports in existence.

  Janet Guthrie

  Sports, Passion, Thinking

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• When I see my opponent, I begin to shake uncontrollably. Once he hits me, I think to myself, you just hit Wanderlei Silva, how dare you hit Wanderlei Silva. Then I try to kill them.

  Wanderlei Silva

  Thinking, Opponents, Dare

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• I had to learn to be honest with myself. I had to recognize my pain threshold. When I hit the floor, I have to realize it's not as if I broke a bone. Pushing yourself over the barrier is a habit. I know I can do it and try something else crazy. If you want to win the war, you've got to pay the price.

  Flo Hyman

  Sports, Pain, War

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• We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.

  Bill Harley

  People, Giving, Looks

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• As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

  Sam Palladio

  Guitar, Play, Musician

  "Nashville’s Sam Palladio on the Music, Avoiding TMZ, and Gunnar and Scarlett". Interview with Gwynne Watkins, www.vulture.com. December 12, 2012.

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• I try to conceal art with art.

  Jean-Philippe Rameau

  Art

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• When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ball point pens. You can draw a sun with any one of them. Also remember that sunset and dawn are the back and front of the same phenomenon: when we are looking at the sunset, the people over there are looking at the dawn.

  Bruno Munari

  Sunset, Drawing, Hands

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• I've been trying to get Mr. Finchem to lengthen 5 and 7 and 14 and 18 - and he's being a mule.

  Pete Dye

  Mules

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• I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

  Michel Legrand

  Radio, Harmony, Melody

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• When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.

  Samuel Palmer

  Wall, Moon, Years

  "The Life and Letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher". Book by Alfred H. Palmer, London, 1892.

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• I'd like to say I'm ready to kick ass and show the guys how it's done. But I'm not here to prove anything about being a woman. I'm here to drive a race car and try to win a race.

  Lyn St. James

  Winning, Race, Car

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• More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something, even if it's just a bookshelf. Make a stab in the dark. Read off the beaten path. Your attention is precious. Be careful of other people trying to direct how you dispense it. Confront your own values. Decide what it is you are looking for an then look for it. Perform connoisseurship. We all need to create our own vocabulary of appreciation, or we are trapped by the vocabulary of others.

  Phyllis Rose

  Appreciation, Dark, Vocabulary

  Phyllis Rose (2014). “The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading”, p.215, Macmillan

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• That's the thing about this game -- you get a little monkey on your back. You go 0-for-3, you go 0-for-6, pretty soon you start pressing. You keep trying a little harder, and the harder you try, the worse it gets. So, anytime you can break out of it by getting a base hit, it feeds confidence.

  Mike Candrea

  Games, Break Out, Littles

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• The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

  Aries Spears

  Everyday Things, Exaggeration Is, Average

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• This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Divorce, Years, Parent

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Try for a record of emotion, rather than a piece of topography.

  Frederick H. Evans

  Topography, Pieces, Records

  Frederick H. Evans, Anne Hammond (1992). “Frederick H. Evans: selected texts and bibliography”

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• I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

  Fay Godwin

  Country, Avid, Cameras

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• Lady luck is trying his best for Liverpool

  Steve Claridge

  Luck, Lady Luck, Liverpool

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• I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.

  Adrian Chiles

  Done, Moments, Building

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• I love the strength of white blonde. Some people talk about having disasters while dyeing their hair - in my opinion you can never have a blonde disaster . . . I am always trying the latest products - whatever is new goes on my hair.

  Donatella Versace

  Hair, White, Always Trying

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• The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

  Anthea Turner

  Firsts, Management, Delegation

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• It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.

  Patrick McGoohan

  Mean, Rebel, Spirit

  Interview with Warner Troyer in Toronto for the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977.

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• Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel.

  Todd English

  Passion, Kids, Rebel

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