Quotes and Sayings About Trying
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Let's leave it all alone. I'm stupidest when I try to be funny.
-- Al SwearengenSource : "Fictional character: Al Swearengen". "Deadwood" TV series, Season 1, Episode 2: "Deep Water", March 28, 2004.
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I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, "Yes, of course they have, they've thought of it!"
-- Al YankovicSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.
-- Al YankovicSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
-- Al YankovicSource : Source: www.esquire.com
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I'm a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, "How am I going to screw this up?" [Laughs] If I'm really actively trying to think of a parody, then I'll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
-- Al Yankovic -
You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don't step on my blue suede shoes.
-- Al Yankovic -
Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
-- Al Yankovic -
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If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.
-- Al-Ghazali -
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
-- Alain de Botton -
We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.
-- Alain de Botton -
We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.
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I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
-- Alain ProstSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
-- Alan Alda -
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
-- Alan Alda -
It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
-- Alan Alda -
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Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
-- Alan Arkin -
The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
-- Alan AyckbournSource : Alan Ayckbourn (2015). “The Crafty Art of Playmaking”, p.11, Macmillan
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I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
-- Alan Ball -
I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.
-- Alan Ball -
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
-- Alan Bennett -
If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.
-- Alan Blinder -
Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
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I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.
-- Alan Dundes -
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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
-- Alan Dundes -
Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.
-- Alan Dundes