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We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us -- Jim Morrison
If you die trying for something important, then you have both honor and courage, and that's pretty good. -- Michael Oher
I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do. -- Ernest Hemingway
I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. -- Mike Leigh
You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results. -- Bill Parcells
National Democrats often try to pay for something with oil and gas taxes. -- Mark Begich
When someone is trying to interpret something for you, they always have an agenda. -- Penn Jillette
If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere. -- Bobby Darin
Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time! -- Emily Giffin
It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal. -- Carol Alt
To play in the World Cup and try to win something for England was the ultimate. -- Peter Shilton
I've always tried to work hard. I'm not trying to show anybody up or do something spectacular for attention. -- Roy Halladay
Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable. -- Philip Treacy
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good. -- Aaron Sorkin
My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for. -- Jeff Kinney
I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching for something new and difficult that I haven't done before. -- Catherynne M. Valente
Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself. -- John Frusciante
Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better. -- Astro Teller
I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me. -- Kate Clinton
For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it. -- Georges St-Pierre
For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. -- Ernest Hemingway
There's a part of me that wishes I could go out in T-shirt and jeans, 'cause I really love Patti Smith, Cat Power, girls who look so casual; that appeals to me 'cause I guess it's the opposite from what I do. But I can never let myself just do that - I always have to try and dress up and create something. -- Bat for Lashes
I think comedy is a really, really good tool for trying to say something. -- Zach Galifianakis
Trying to prove something to someone is never a valid reason for doing anything. -- Iyanla Vanzant
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for. -- Jane Fonda
It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal -- Carol Alt
The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape. -- Peter HÃ¸eg
For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it. -- Jeremy Piven
Sometimes if the people are up for trying something that I'm interested in, it can be a great experience. -- Wes Anderson
When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there. -- Colin Greenwood
If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever. -- Lance Armstrong
Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for -- John Wyndham
I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky. -- Richard Foreman
Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it. -- Daniel Schorr
What's risky is living your life and never trying for anything and never doing something brave and never getting yourself scared. -- Angelina Jolie
For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new. -- Ariel Pink
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison
It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not. -- Laura Marling
I do like match play. I like trying to match an opponent shot for shot. It's a challenge. And it's something different. -- Retief Goosen
I'm a total atheist, and for me it's just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living. -- Myla Goldberg
When you're playing something, hopefully, if you're doing your best, you're advocating for your character and you're not trying to think too much. -- Nick Kroll
I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me. -- Aaron Taylor-Johnson
All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't. -- Angus Wilson
I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me. -- Aaron Taylor-Johnson
My point is, there's no sense trying to squeeze something out of your swing if you can let your clubs do the shotmaking for you. -- Lee Trevino
Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them. -- Kameron Hurley
Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that. -- Will Champlin
I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes. -- Sheena Easton
I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I'm trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. -- Sarah Kay
In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief. -- Simon Van Booy
For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really. -- Andrea Arnold
The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson. -- Peace Pilgrim
If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false. -- Pablo Picasso
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
If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty. -- Cornel West
Don't listen to anybody who's trying to bring you down. There's so much negativity in the world. If you really want something, then you go for it. -- Ryan Cabrera
What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people? -- Richard J. Daley
I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself. -- Lord Byron
People ask me for my autograph after a show. I'm not famous, I think they're messing with me. I think they're trying to make me late for something. -- Mitch Hedberg
It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff. -- James Hunter
Anyone who wants to vote probably shouldn't be allowed to vote. Voting is the first step towards zombification - trying to get something without actually working for it. -- Bill Bonner
Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are within. Some of the answers are without. -- Gregory Pardlo
I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities. -- Miuccia Prada
Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual. -- Sarah Zettel

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