#tryin

I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#along #been #between #comes #decade

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#criticism #help #i #learned #more

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world. ↗

— Al Purdy

#desperately #i #trying #unhappy #world

Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter. ↗

— Sid Waddell

#like #look #man #stop #trying

I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties. ↗

— Randy Quaid

#am #being #believe #career #control

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#forest #forests #like #more #point

On 'Justified,' we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#california #call #driving #find #justified

I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#ambitious #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #everything

I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort. ↗

— Clive Owen

#clothes #effort #everything #goes #good

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it. ↗

— Clive Owen

#challenging #constantly #craft #get #i