#tryin

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#could #doing #else #entertainment #entertainment industry

I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#been #better #big #crazy #everything

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#back #forever #get #memory #perfect

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#confirm #especially #existences #films #i

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run. ↗

— Viggo Mortensen

#everyone #going #honestly #i #long

I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong... Why do I think that will probably carry over until the day you die? ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#avoid #before #born #carry #child

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#deal #events #going #great #great deal

There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world, trying to do good, and written very well at the same time. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#examples #good #had #lives #out

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working. ↗

— Bridget Moynahan

#me #trying #working #you

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#i #more #trying