#tryin

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#am #aspects #attention #boundaries #conscious

Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with women on points. And his choreography is so showy and flashy. He always looks self-satisfied to me. ↗

— Matthew Bourne

#astaire #choreography #dance #doing #flashy

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go. ↗

— Lorraine Bracco

#busy #downward #everything #fighting #go

I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#carpet #certainly #guilty #i #sweep

They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front. ↗

— Tom Udall

#filed #forward #front #lawsuit #legislation

When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#allies #came #deal #decade #early

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank. ↗

— David Brock

#cash #conservative #editors #magazines #money

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#copyright #i #music #my time #now

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar. ↗

— Xun Zi

#aware #bravery #death #dog #drink

Why should we change on stage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way. ↗

— Clancy Brown

#change #doing #fancy #just #keep