#trying

Maybe the future is like rowing for shore. Your only choice is to try or give up. ↗

— Kristen Chandler

#hope #inspirational #trying #inspirational

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#actually #canal #career #decisions #i

Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying. ↗

— Harry Anderson

#fool #keep #knows #stars #touch

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#characters #conscience #cut #failing #fighting

For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism. ↗

— Greg Bear

#been #before #costly #deadly #even

You just have to surround yourself with people who are going to support and love you before trying to sell you as a product, or push you into something you don't want to do. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#going #into #just #love #love you

We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#been #beginning #beginnings #even #fighting

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am? ↗

— Annette Bening

#am #around #authentic #find #get

Women have that weird way of trying to be feminist. You know, like 'hear me roar.' But what they really want is a man to open the door for them. ↗

— Leslie Bibb

#feminist #hear #know #like #man

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#back #feel #hedonistic #i #i feel