#tryin

I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#anybody #difference #i #i always #large

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#also #because #find #funny #level

Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it. ↗

— Leon Uris

#good #making #part #people #trying

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#because #day #easy #find #hunt

The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat. ↗

— John Pistole

#any #best #bottom #bottom line #constructing

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#duck #full #hide #i #out

I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#anymore #bother #day #days #follow

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter? ↗

— Robert Plant

#communicate #does #fulfilled #ideal #laughter

It's not so weird that four generations are living together under the same roof and trying to make it work. It's how a lot of people in this country are living right now. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#four #generations #how #living #lot

Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#alone #always #been #best #comedy