#tryin

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#became #cast #causes #character #connect

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#discover #i #interested #musicians #new

I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I've just kind of backed off a little. ↗

— Elvis Stojko

#against #backed #being #champion #deal

If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem. ↗

— I. F. Stone

#died #doubt #equitable #find #god

So one day, in a fit of trying to do something different, I just dyed my hair dark brown and got my first role a week later, after which I thought: 'People are closed-minded, man! Like a different hair colour changes everything!' ↗

— Emma Stone

#brown #changes #closed-minded #colour #dark

I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me. ↗

— Pat Summitt

#coming #figure #i #i can #just

The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#act #acting #advice #ass #believe

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#administration #am #best #come #else

Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that. ↗

— Gay Talese

#another day #better #chance #close #come

I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying. ↗

— John Sexton

#approach #changed #could #decided #experience