#tryin

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#big #big picture #compassion #connect #different

I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#comedians #equal #female #find #guys

Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up the show because people thought no one would watch it because I'm openly gay. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#because #beg #gay #get #had

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#big #control #elephant #learning #like

That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension. ↗

— Mos Def

#clear #dimension #draw #i #new

That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films. ↗

— Ted Demme

#control #developed #film #films #good

Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#go #house #housekeeping #i #incredibly

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own. ↗

— Loretta Devine

#find #i #my own #own #process

I remember the guest stars who came, they were always trying to find a new plot for their characters because they wanted to stay. It was really a great working environment. ↗

— Caroline Dhavernas

#because #came #characters #environment #find

But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#box #captivated #combine #fact #just