Always Trying Quotes - Page 15

• I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Fighting, Kind, Incessant

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• I'm always trying to do something different and trying to keep myself amused.

  T.C. Boyle

  Trying, Different, Amused

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was never trying to be experimental or anti-anything; I was always trying to be real to things I was feeling.

  Nina Menkes

  Real, Feelings, Being Real

  "We hope to hook a big fish, but we don't know what we might find". Interview with Mariko Tamaki, logger.believermag.com. June 16, 2014.

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• Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa, make-believe games, etc. But kids are really smart, I think they know from an early age about death, this void and hole they are immediately traveling toward.

  Shane Warren Jones

  Children, Smart, Believe

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.

  Wendell Berry

  Independent, Thinking, May

  Wendell Berry (2012). “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays”, p.27, Counterpoint Press

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• The main challenge is technology and that's something I really push and work closely with Adidas on. They're real leaders in sports performance; always trying to push that further and further and get the best technology they can. That takes time and has rigorous testing, it's very laborious, but it's also very rewarding. You get to work with fantastic athletes, and that's a fantastic thing that has nothing to do with my day job in ready-to-wear.

  Stella McCartney

  Sports, Jobs, Real

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I was pillaging a lot of music that had nothing to do with guitar playing, using a lot of strange tunings and voicings and chord structures that aren't really that natural to the guitar; I ended up developing a harmonic palette that's not particularly natural to the guitar because I was always trying to make my guitar sound like something else.

  Daniel Rossen

  Guitar, Sound, Tuning

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Well, as far as film, either you're making a film or you're making videos. Digital capture is always trying to emulate the range and look of film. I believe personally that film has more.

  David Ayer

  Believe, Video, Looks

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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  Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

  Tim Burton

  Children, Ambition, Saws

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• I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

  Michael Caine

  Actors, Lasts, Admirer

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. April 30, 2010.

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• I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

  Naomi Campbell

  People, Want, Faces

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• The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Health, Science, Mind

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• My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Eye

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• I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Challenges, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

  David Duchovny

  Perfect, Trying, Comedy

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• When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

  Colin Greenwood

  Trying, Succeed, Aim

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.

  Hugh Jackman

  Sports, Brother, Father

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• I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Success, Fun

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.69, Prabhat Prakashan

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• There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Stupid, Kids

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

  Laura Linney

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.

  Ryan Lochte

  Rocks, Car, Littles

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• When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

  John Lydon

  Moving, Writing, Hands

  Interview With Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 12, 2010.

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• I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I'm always trying to make a larger human statement.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Running, Mean, African American

  "Wynton Marsalis gives spirited take on jazz with 'Abyssinian Mass'". Interview with Jeremy D. Goodwin, www.bostonglobe.com. October 24, 2013.

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• As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there you have to produce that yourself.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Giving, Listening, Actors

  "Q&A with 'Orphan Black' Star Tatiana Maslany". BBC America Interview, www.bbcamerica.com. April 8, 2013.

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