#tryin

Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work. ↗

— Meredith Monk

#around #carrying #everything #get #going

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another. ↗

— Elizabeth Montagu

#another #aristotle #country #judge #laws

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth. ↗

— Rick Moody

#dead #dead people #forth #having #i

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven. ↗

— Chloe Moretz

#ballet #best #done #driven #gymnastics

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#deal #dementia #experiencing #forget #how

Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore. ↗

— Ellen Muth

#anymore #anything #been #beginning #friend

I am always trying to write. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#am #i #i am #trying #write

My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#camera #concept #dream #essentially #every

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since. ↗

— Gary Numan

#because #been #before #charts #desperately

It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break. ↗

— Patrick McGoohan

#after #break #destroy #ever #ever after