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I'd rather deal with a Mob guy shaking hands on a deal than a Hollywood lawyer, who, the minute you get the contract signed, is trying to figure out how to screw you.
- Albert S. Ruddy
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I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.
- Ariel Rechtshaid
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As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.
- Richard Foreman
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There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good.
- Gelsey Kirkland
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I'm so public about my love life I'm really not trying to hide anything.
- Georgia Toffolo
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I think the coaches are trying to push me and get me out of my comfort zone in being able to communicate with my teammates and being more of a leader on the floor.
- Tyler Herro
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Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not to be afraid of that when that happens. I am not trying to obliterate myself and completely hide within the images like I used to.
- Cindy Sherman
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Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound... that's all good.
- Dr. Dre
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All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean.
- Robert Mueller
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Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.
- Steve Albini
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I've been making films since the '70s and trying to develop that best possible fiction-film style that I feel is the most expressive. At a certain point, I felt I was winding up making the same film stylistically and I found that boring.
- Jonathan Demme
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Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.
- Mark Foley
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It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.
- Ben Gibbard
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Every time I dance, I'm trying to prove myself to myself.
- Misty Copeland
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As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you're trying to do, if that makes sense. It's a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well.
- Robert Stromberg
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Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.
- Ryan Tedder
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Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.
- Myles Munroe
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Really, I think the extra layer of raising a son as a gay black man comes from trying to raise a son who doesn't subscribe to masculine stereotypes.
- Karamo Brown
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I've started spending more of my time studying, trying to improve my IQ by reading and writing. I've missed out on a lot in life. I don't regret this, of course. Nevertheless, I need to make up for lost time.
- Ilya Ilyin
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I exist in a world that's pretty gruesome. All I can tell you is this: I'm trying to keep my balance.
- Dave Checketts
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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.
- Shelby Foote
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We are trying to educate players to use their spare time to train for a life after football, which comes to everybody. You can lead a lot of horses to water, but you can't make them all drink.
- Gordon Taylor
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In my trailer, I work out with free weights and do situps and push-ups. I'm just trying to stay lean and active looking.
- Norman Reedus
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As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there's a whole wave of new artists that come along every year. In '05, I was part of the crop. It was a lot harder trying to set myself apart from the rest of the pack.
- Jason Aldean
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We don't do lots of jamming on stage, but I think we have the attitude of exploring things and trying something new.
- Anderson East
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I played basketball. I went to school and played basketball and was trying to pursue that as a career path and kind of just fell into acting.
- Robbie Jones
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I play the drums, and I'm trying to teach myself how to play the piano.
- Robbie Jones
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Running businesses of all sizes and stages, I've seen the challenges companies face in trying to identify, attract, and retain talent.
- Brian Lee
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I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.
- Rami Malek
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When I'm in the studio, I'm experimenting, trying things on.
- Kandi Burruss
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What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be about the basic emotions and feelings that we all experience.
- Mary Ellen Mark
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Friends were always trying to get me to do sexy photographs, but I was a little too uptight.
- Bebe Buell
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Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.
- Washed Out
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I'm always trying to improve, always trying to be at my top, trying to push the limit.
- Stan Wawrinka
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I come from a country whose idea of masculinity is quite extreme, and I've grown up around a lot of that energy. I've been part of that a lot. And it's very draining; it's quite tiring trying to be macho.
- Taika Waititi
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I find myself walking these lines. Like I might be an artist, but I also might be an activist. And I'm trying to be both in a way that honors both and doesn't stray too far into either.
- Chris Jordan
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You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon.
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.
- Gerard Butler
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
- Abraham Polonsky
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I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.
- Elliott Smith
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I don't see Republicans flipping their lids trying to burn down buildings in Ninja outfits when a Democrat, progressive, or socialist tries to speak.
- Jeanine Pirro
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Even if it's a horrible venue - a bar that barely has a PA and no lighting - we're still there trying to get somebody to not forget us.
- Tyler Joseph
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
- Dak Prescott
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When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration.
- Moises Arias
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During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and 'style' as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.
- Chris Ware
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In the movie, I deal with the loss of my legs and adjusting and trying to become a new person, essentially.
- Jeff Bauman
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Zombies have no memories of their former life. You wont see the undead trying to wash windows or do your taxes. All they know how to do is swarm and feed.
- Max Brooks
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That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
- Ted Demme
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The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.
- Miyavi
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I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.
- Miyavi
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I view investors as our partners and stakeholders in the company. They are trying to build financial models. What I try to focus on is helping them understand how we think.
- Ruth Porat
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And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
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I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.
- Nina Jacobson
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Whenever I do someone's portrait, I'm trying to locate the photo in the lens while reaching into that person psychologically. There's the magic! I don't always achieve it. It's a hit or a miss!
- Gerard Malanga
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It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
- David Foster Wallace
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We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer.
- Robbie Keane
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I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.
- George R. R. Martin
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You're just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don't have to force nobody.
- Mariano Rivera
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I'm trying to run through you. I'm trying to make you feel everything that I'm bringing. That's the mentality you have to have as a running back. The defense is trying to knock the mess out of you, and I'm trying to do the same.
- Derrick Henry
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The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.
- Carey Mulligan
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I was so depressed for so many years over trying to become a working comedian that my sense of self-worth would plummet.
- Bob Saget
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There's enough really good actors out of work without me trying to steal any of it.
- Josh Widdicombe
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If I didn't feel that I was doing something or trying to do something for others, then I would have very little excuse for the life that I lead.
- William T. Vollmann
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I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.
- Platon
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Every time you wanted to do something, you'd hope it would score. You'd keep trying and trying, and all of the sudden, something would come right out of left field, like 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' No one had any idea about that one.
- Gordon Lightfoot
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I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.
- Irwin Rose
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A fundamental premise in cancer therapy is trying to identify how the metabolism of cancer cells differs from normal tissue. When differences are identified, it often paves the way for treatments that will disrupt the cancer's metabolism while sparing normal tissue.
- David Perlmutter
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My teammates and I have so much faith in each other on the court while we're out there trying to win games.
- Donovan Mitchell
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Facebook and Twitter have a ton of information they're trying to make sense of.
- Chad Hurley
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Urban Fantasy is a subgenre pretty much designed for teenagers. It's pretty twee, but I adore it. I've been trying to come up with an Urban Fantasy comic ever since I'd read the Nancy Collins 'Sonja Blue' series years ago.
- Ted Naifeh
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No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.
- Amanda Hale
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All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.
- Brandon Lee
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I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.
- Stacey Dash
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Stop trying to be men. Let's be women. And let's let men be men. Let's empower them to be men, because I fell like they're falling away.
- Stacey Dash
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When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.
- Janeane Garofalo
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I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.
- Janeane Garofalo
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I learned that when you're lucky enough to be surrounded by such talented people that you really become more of an orchestrator of this talent - you're just trying to harmonise everyone's contributions.
- Mark Romanek
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The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.
- Joichi Ito
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Roberto Mancini is putting his faith in me for the Nazionale and I am trying to prove on the field that I deserve that.
- Jorginho
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I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.
- Suzy Bogguss
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Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.
- Penelope Wilton
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What drives me is trying to be perfect.
- Tony Gwynn
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I think my biggest fear is trying to communicate in Spanish with someone I don't know and them laughing at me or thinking it's awful, but for the most part, people I've encountered just see that I'm trying, and they're helpful. It's helpful to me to communicate with people.
- Megan Nicole
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I sometimes have dreams that my assistant director is waking me up and trying to get me to the set.
- Lauren Cohan
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In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.
- Helena Christensen
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I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.
- Martin Kippenberger
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I was trying to prove people wrong who said I wasn't a good guy, and I was trying to be the person that other people thought I was - people who loved our band thought I was a god.
- Oliver Sykes
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I think you'll see if you look at 'Up', we've focused a lot on labor (and the forces trying to keep labor down) and have featured everything from Wal Mart workers, to on-the-ground organizers, to union presidents to restaurant workers sitting at the table sharing their experience and expertise.
- Chris Hayes
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It's really an interesting problem, trying to earn a living and serve art and serve kids. What I try to create are these visual layers so that readers feel the possibility exists that there might be something in the book they never saw before.
- Peggy Rathmann
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
- Jack Hanna
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Balancing trying to be an athlete trying to get ready for WrestleMania, training twice a day, to everything you do at the office to remembering that you have a wife and kids and everything else - it's challenging, but you just make it happen. In some ways, it's no different than anyone else's life.
- Triple H
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We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.
- George Haven Putnam
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Working improvisationally in my studio with dancers, it's completely different. We don't have any starting point; we don't have an end point. We don't have anything we are trying to show or do. The picture evolves from nowhere.
- Lois Greenfield
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I'm trying to grow more as a journalist and understand the story I'm photographing in order to communicate it in a better way.
- Daniel Berehulak
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I'm trying to be the best in the world and get that pound-for-pound spot and I'm trying to get paid.
- T.J. Dillashaw
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I've always been a defensive wrestler, but when I go in there in the fights, I get so caught up in trying to knock people's heads off that wrestling goes out the window when you're throwing punches and kicks and stuff.
- Quinton Jackson
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Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.
- John Hull
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I want to bring clean water to people who do not have it. What I'm trying to do now is think of ways to build a well-drilling machine that is low-cost so people in rural areas can afford it. People in rural places could use the water for irrigation or for drinking.
- William Kamkwamba
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Honestly, I've just been trying to improve all parts of my game, and a statistic is just a statistic.
- Lindsey Horan
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I think at some level the ICC is trying to promote the women's game globally and that requires them to focus more on ODI and T20I cricket. They are trying to revive the game.
- Mithali Raj
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