#tryin

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#duck #full #hide #i #out

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter? ↗

— Robert Plant

#communicate #does #fulfilled #ideal #laughter

I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#along #been #between #comes #decade

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#criticism #help #i #learned #more

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#athens #bad #beforehand #deal #everybody

The biggest danger is trying to put too much pressure on yourself, trying to get in too good shape. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#danger #get #good #much #pressure

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else. ↗

— Ted Rall

#alliance #cheap #country #else #hands

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#form #i #matter #say #still

I loved rap, especially in the early days. But I wasn't trying to shove it down anybody's throats. ↗

— Dee Dee Ramone

#days #down #early #especially #i

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#believed #could #get #here #i