#tryin

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

When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#anywhere #around #because #doing #elvis

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#jesse #jesse jackson #just #know #nest

I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series. ↗

— William Devane

#age #character #find #i #i can

I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#element #feeling #flirting #fun #get

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#been #before #find #further #haven

If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life. ↗

— Tony Blair

#conversations #decision #difficult #everybody #frank

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#application #clever #concern #cryptography #deep