#tryin

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#devil #gets #god #good #mad

Losing Michael Jackson is a handicap. It's the Lakers trying to win a championship without Kobe Bryant. ↗

— Tito Jackson

#championship #handicap #jackson #kobe #kobe bryant

I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me. ↗

— Rick James

#created #i #image #james #just

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured. ↗

— Rick James

#funk #i #lyrically #make #melodic

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#filmmaker #grow #i #keep #person

I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#hard #i #i can #time #trying

I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#acting #because #character #doing #establish

People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#deliver #ends #feel #frustrated #frustration

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#executive #had #man #perform #place

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#champagne #cork #exploding #finger #get