#tryin

I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance. ↗

— Jon Favreau

#best #extra #get #guy #i

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right. ↗

— Vince Cable

#bank #bosses #british #daily #dodge

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance. ↗

— John Cale

#good #idea #live #live performance #make

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#been #i #lately #other #than

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security. ↗

— David Cameron

#afghanistan #clear #create #democracy #frankly

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it. ↗

— Lizzy Caplan

#anything #character #common #completely #different

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#accomplished #been #hope #important #important things

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk. ↗

— John Fahey

#i #never #teachers #technique #them

You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental. ↗

— Richard Branson

#happen #know #never #new #something

And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene. ↗

— John Breaux

#care #education #effective #federal #federal government