#tryin

I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#be happy #being #glamour #grand #grand slams

I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#better #between #continue #conversations #endless

I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#better #consumer #favourite #getting #i

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#big #big ideas #certain #certain way #culture

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images. ↗

— John Shirley

#culture #i #images #into #people

You can spend the rest of your life trying to figure out what other people expect from you, or you can make a decision to let that all go. ↗

— Maria Shriver

#expect #figure #go #life #make

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#i #life #males #play #spent

My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#compete #extreme #find #games #go

When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#ago #because #britney #britney spears #come

We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#audience #been #black #black and white #come