#trying

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#figure #find #i #i am #i think

No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business. ↗

— Peter Gallagher

#impossible #living #make #matter #role

I've never been a popular person, but it doesn't matter. I have everything in my life that I want. I'm not a walking publicity stunt. I'm not an anarchist, or bitter. I'm not trying to be subversive. I just try to remain unguarded, unprotected by fear, and agents and publicists, and I feel comfortable that way. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#anarchist #been #bitter #comfortable #everything

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#better #better now #clock #committed #five

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do? ↗

— Bill Gates

#about #actually #another #away #confused

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#great #ideology #lincoln #love #obama

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#keep #maintained #success #success is #those

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#attracted #because #careers #come #compensation

When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#already #crazy #drive #fashion #figure

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#after #argument #been #case #could