Quotes and Sayings About Trying
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The most distinguishing element of my novels is that I try as hard as I can - within the context of a popular commercial thriller - to make them feel authentic. Drawing on real locations and real events is part of that authenticity.
-- Alex BerensonSource : "Fact and Fiction in The Shadow Patrol". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. April 10, 2012.
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Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.
-- Alex BorsteinSource : "Random Rules: Alex Borstein". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2006.
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I just try to be as versatile as life is and try and express that in the fight.
-- Alex Caceres -
I try to stay calm and I try to enjoy myself as I perform these actions so I perform them with minimal stress on my body.
-- Alex Caceres -
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Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.
-- Alex Chilton -
I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.
-- Alex Ferguson -
It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.
-- Alex Grey -
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In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
-- Alex GreySource : Alex Grey (2017). “The Mission of Art”, p.38, Shambhala Publications
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The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.
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No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
-- Alex KapranosSource : Source: www.argusleader.com
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You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!
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When I'm shooting in other cities, I'm just trying to make it look like California.
-- Alex PragerSource : "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.
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I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just feel like I can.
-- Alexa Chung -
I think it's cool that London Fashion Week is about young designers trying wacky things.
-- Alexa Chung -
I'm already a tiny person, so now I'm trying to go to the gym to add muscle. I need it!
-- Alexa VegaSource : "hairspray on broadway!". Interview with Sarah Wassner Flynn, www.seventeen.com. March 29, 2007.
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I don't know what to say when I have a crush on somebody. I kind of lose my words. I really try to start a conversation, and I can't. It's horrible.
-- Alexa VegaSource : "AGENT ORANGE: Sleepover Star Alexa Vega Talks About Her New Movie!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 9, 2004.
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When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.
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In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.
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You see nature and then you try to emulate it.
-- Alexander CalderSource : "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists, Harper & Row, New York and Evanston, Illinois". Interview with Katherine Kuh, 1962.
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Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
I am not really doing research, just trying to cultivate myself.
-- Alexander Grothendieck -
We spend a lot of effort trying to make things look effortless.
-- Alexander Isley -
If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority of cases, he would certainly come to the conclusion that it is the middlegame that provides the most decisive stage.
-- Alexander Kotov -
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Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
-- Alexander Payne -
New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,...
-- Alexander Pope -
Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.
-- Alexander Rodchenko -
You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.
-- Alexander SiddigSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used
-- Alexander StepanovSource : Interview with Graziano Lo Russo, www.stlport.org.
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It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette.
-- Alexander Wang