#trying

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'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#down #head #i #just #keep

As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television. ↗

— Andrew Rannells

#also #get #jobs #losing #particularly

Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#come #else #everybody #everybody else #experience

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

I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back and you've had all these very extraordinary experiences with extraordinary people, but there's not a line of continuity to it. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#another #back #because #buy #chasing