#tryin

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#am #did #hip #hip hop #hip-hop

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#brand new #break #chip #heart #just

We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#doing #foreign #foreign policy #get #i

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets. ↗

— Wilma Rudolph

#beyond #determined #discipline #discover #held

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#capacity #effort #get #go #hear

What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating. ↗

— Bob Saget

#frustrating #good #good work #got #i

To play in the Olympics, to play for your country, there's nothing like it. You love doing it and I'm looking forward to it again. We're all looking forward to trying to win another gold. ↗

— Joe Sakic

#another #country #doing #forward #gold

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#environment #i #react #story #then

When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#conforming #culture #dominant #dominated #even

Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#basically #big #big influence #clockwork #elephant