#trying

Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#delay #everyone #fall #hollywood #i

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #artists-life #arts-and-humanities #creative-people #creative-process

They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#got #great #i #just #parents

Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others. ↗

— James De La Vega

#believe in yourself #convince #others #stop #trying

It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive. ↗

— Charles Erwin Wilson

#birth #birth control #control #futile #like

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#been #clearly #cultural #define #dismissed

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134 ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#courage #determination #trying #courage

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#door #exit #himself #literature #literature-quotes

If you are only what you are, You at least have a chance Not to outsmart, But be on a par with yourself And that is worth trying. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #outsmart #poetry

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#expectation #find #i #kind #language