#tryin

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#dancer #die #going #i #just

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#control #embraced #emotions #i #never

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more. ↗

— Courtney Love

#because #father #growing #growing up #had

I'm trying to be number one all the way around. It's not just the South, it's not just the East, it's not the West, I'm going for across the world, you know what I'm saying? This is where I'm coming from. ↗

— Ludacris

#around #coming #east #going #i

I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper. ↗

— Ludacris

#been #everyone #feel #heads #i

The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat. ↗

— Ludacris

#eat #everybody #get #hip-hop #lot

I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#christian #christian life #good #i #lead

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#back #been #freud #greatest #i

It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority. ↗

— Gavin MacLeod

#doing #enough #hour #marriage #maybe

It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#get #much #our #ourselves #passion