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Blythe Danner

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ILYA ILYIN I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it...
SAMM LEVINE I am in the role of trying to be a part of this team and not trying to stand out as an individual.
CRISTIE KERR I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've a...
ANI DIFRANCO I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and coo...
JENNA DEWAN I'm just got past the point of making a big deal out of this stuff and just going out about my busin...
ARRON OBERHOLSER I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very har...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN She was going to make a business out of this or die trying.
BOB CONWAY I've always had a longstanding dream, ever since I was a kid, where I was running on a big lake ...
GARRETT HEDLUND People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, '...
J. COLE The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection ...
FOREST WHITAKER I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next t...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go a...
DAVID ANTIN I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my b...
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STEPHEN COLLETTI Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own...
AARON SANCHEZ In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be goo...
SUSANNA HOFFS It does have next committee stops, and we'll be trying to work on it then, trying to preserve proper...
BILL HERRLE I really love showing up at work at 10 A.M., trying to make it funny until 3 P.M., and then going ho...
CHRIS EIGEMAN I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.
YANCY BUTLER What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE I thought about throwing the ball and trying to score a touchdown and then going for two with him ov...
JON GRUDEN I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an ent...
BEN CASNOCHA I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.
MIKE FIGGIS I guess she was just trying to cross the street, that's it. The dude's just going this way and they ...
ISLAM FISH I don't know how many we've lost in a row. I'm trying to forget about it.
EMIL BROWN I'm not trying to be your daughters role model. I'm trying to be my role model and my daughters role...
NERISSA IRVING I'm worried about doing my best, playing to my potential, helping out my teammates, and trying t...
ELI MANNING I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while,...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enj...
TAYLOR DAYNE I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
PAT OLIPHANT I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I...
JOHNNY DEPP I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Chri...
TIM TEBOW You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spar...
MARCO RUBIO I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up ...
ANNA WINTOUR I knew I was going to make my shot. I was trying to take a leadership role and keep the team poised,...
JOSH AKOGNON But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
FISHER STEVENS I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I'v...
BECK I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of c...
BRIAN ENO I've been touted for my guacamole. I'll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to ...
BILLY GIBBONS I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my fac...
CATHY FREEMAN My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-scho...
BRITT ROBERTSON I was in school to play basketball; I wasn't trying to be a doctor. It's hard to talk about ...
BEN SIMMONS For myself, it's trying to do my best in whatever I am doing. At this time, it is boxing; then w...
SONNY BILL WILLIAMS My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this...
BARRY LOPEZ I'm trying not to think about it, because we've got a big game in New York. Going into their home op...
PAT NOONAN Try, try, and try again. Never stop trying.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don'...
BRAD WENSTRUP I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and ju...
AARON PAUL She kept talking. She told everyone. There was more to it, and she was trying to get it talked out. ...
RAYMOND CARVER It makes it tough. I'm trying to run a business. I'm just trying to make money and keep my employees...
AL HUMMEL The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill t...
BRUNO HELLER I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and th...
STEPHEN COLBERT It's difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensi...
SONAM KAPOOR I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
GARRY TRUDEAU That's the key to our success. Everyone just goes out and plays their role. No one is trying to do i...
BEN WALLACE Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'...
DANIEL H. PINK If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneelin...
CYNTHIA OZICK The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't...
ADAM LAMBERT I've been in this business for years and I'm still befuddled by the ways of this town.
MEG RYAN Get a sense of how interested the company is in your business model and objectives. Are they really ...
GORD HOTCHKISS I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out...
CALLUM KEITH RENNIE It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It'...
ALAN ALDA Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ev...
ADAM SANDLER I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as a...
HARI KUNZRU I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like m...
RYAN PHILLIPPE In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in
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JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memo...
WAYNE ROONEY I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging...
DAVID BYRNE I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going...
RANDEE HELLER With 'Rampart,' I read it and I'm like, 'That's the best role I've ever been...
WOODY HARRELSON I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal...
NEKO CASE I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as ...
JACKI WEAVER When you're trying to expand your business, it's about real estate in the stores.
JANET EVANOVICH The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it...
PATRICK DEWITT In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ...
DAVID COVERDALE My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do...
MISTY COPELAND Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, an...
LUPE FIASCO I believe in not trying to control things that are out of my control or none of my business.
TOBE HANSON I'm trying to shoot my way out of it, but unfortunately it's not going in. Because I'm trying to sho...
DANIEL KICKERT I'm trying to love someone, even when she tried to forget about me. everytime i falling in love, I'l...
JHEB KRUEGER (JEFF) I've learned to start from a really sound argument, boil down the essence of what you're try...
HASAN MINHAJ I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way...
ANN BEATTIE I flew in this morning and am trying to get home to Tampa now. I got stuck in it this morning, too.
LEE HOFFMAN I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's...
MAC DEMARCO Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sw...
ERIC MCCORMACK I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have mor...
AMY KLOBUCHAR Forget worrying about the break-up of celebrities you don't even know. I have long since given u...
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TOM DELONGE There's nowhere like home for me, but there has been something so interesting about most of the ...
BRITTANY BOWE I think the challenge is going out in front of a paying audience with absolutely nothing and trying ...
COLIN MOCHRIE I've got my life. I'm very serious about my business. I've got my family. And I've g...
ERNIE ELS I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the...
HANNAH KEARNEY This business is about turning pennies into dollars and that's what they're trying to do.
STEVE KAY Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that...
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