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If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be. -- Taylor Swift
If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard. -- Henry Rollins
I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do. -- Christian Bale
There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them. -- Mickey Mantle
Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy. -- Frederick Lenz
Trying too hard to follow every trend. You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season. -- Tommy Hilfiger
We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something. -- J. J. Abrams
My style icon has always been my mom. I feel like she was always sophisticated and effortless and looked really well put together without trying too hard. -- Bella Heathcote
When I try to speak perfectly then I am not Jackie Chan anymore. Some words sound like I am trying too hard. The whole thing is not me. -- Jackie Chan
A lot of the men were upset or jealous of me because I got the girl. Men are always trying too hard. When I effortlessly get the girl, it pisses them off. -- Jackie Warner
I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort. -- Clive Owen
You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked. -- Jess Weixler
I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever. -- Kate Voegele
It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing. -- David Bowie
There's a thing about trying too hard, which I think is in all forms, which is if you really try to do things really well, you can get to a less good place than if you just let go and let it fly. Especially in creativity. -- Eddie Izzard
Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you. -- Ed Belfour
Our intentions attract the elements and forces, the events, the situation, the circumstances and the relationships necessary to fulfill the intended outcome. We don't need to become involved in the details-in fact, trying too hard may backfire. Let the non-local intelligence synchronize the actions of the universe to fulfill your intentions for you. -- Deepak Chopra
When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then I just wasn't good enough. But I've learned that I was also on the outside - wanting more challenge by living in that more conventional world. -- Jenny Hval
I'm very interested in trying to make comedy shows that are a bit bigger, more theatrical, more of a "show." Some people might say I'm trying too hard, but that's a compliment to me. I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy. -- Bo Burnham
If you think someone's trying too hard, that's the worst thing they can do. To me, it's just desperate, never funny and never witty. It's kind of really old hat because just being shocking isn't enough. It has to change how you think about something. It has to startle you. It has to make you look at something and reconsider whether you're right. That's the whole point. -- John Waters
Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard. -- Karen Karbo
I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people -- Kim Edwards
What's your heart telling you to do?I don't know.'Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear it. -- Nicholas Sparks
Not too hard for me to stay motivated when I'm in sport where everyone's trying to knock me out. -- Nate Diaz
On a daily basis, jeans and t-shirt is still sexy, but it doesn't look like you're trying too hard. -- Tila Tequila
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want! -- Becky G
Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. -- Will Rogers
I just don't like showing everything I've got. I don't want to look like I'm trying too hard to be sexy. -- Elisha Cuthbert
Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good. -- Dejan Stojanovic
I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do. -- Taylor Hanson
When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard. -- David Sedaris
I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another rainbow - I prefer muted, autumnal colours, like most fading redheads. -- Anne Robinson
It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants. -- John D. MacDonald
I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness. -- Jane Fonda

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