#tryin

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#as far as #better #cause #criticize #far

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#always #anger #been #bit #chill

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#clearly #entire #entire life #feminine #her

I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it. ↗

— David Duchovny

#best way #compliment #enjoy #figure #i

The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#exhausting #i #idea #just #leave

I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape. ↗

— Andrew Dost

#chords #fit #folds #healthy #how

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#court #get #had #i #me

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. ↗

— Rita Dove

#come #curriculum #early #get #instead

I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross! ↗

— Hilary Duff

#ate #away #bug #flying #get

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#creative #each #fictional #i #irritant