#tryin

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#based #experience #ideas #live #mind

Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#celebrated #certain #code #could #create

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name. ↗

— Paula Cole

#am #cole #find #i #i always

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#bypass #doing #even #everything #find

But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations. ↗

— Bootsy Collins

#album #always #doing #hope #i

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#down #driven #highest #highest level #i

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#always #am #day #every #every day

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#build #character #editor #especially #evokes

I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up. ↗

— Ice Cube

#because #blood #blood pressure #cut #down

I just don't like showing everything I've got. I don't want to look like I'm trying too hard to be sexy. ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#got #hard #i #just #like