I was trying to be polite.

I was trying to forget everything.

I've been trying in America for seven years.

I had been trying to make a film in Raqqa.

... heroically pushing her out of the way of an oncoming imaginary sniper bullet, for which I have yet to be thanked, I was trying as hard as I could she didn't even see it coming I was trying as hard as I could to be on my best behavior.

I was like, I know. That's what I've been trying to tell you guys all along.

After about a million I mean, I got rejected from lots of places, because I was not only trying to go to a poor country, I was trying to go to the poor of the poor country.

And you can practice your English. Because he told me I was trying to ask him questions about himself.

The distinction that I was drawing in my testimony, between law and morals, was not accepted.

In my life, when I tried to achieve things like success or recognition, they eluded me.

She walked elegantly, like a giraffe on the African savannah, holding the flag on her shoulder. I jogged behind on my tiptoes holding the flag on my extended arm, so that my head was actually under the damn flag.

Among all these experiments, there was one thing in common I was trying to bring a part of the physical world to the digital world.

Douma4 poster for the campaign to free leading human rights activists and opposition figures kidnapped by Islamist militants. The poster reads The one who kidnaps a rebel is a traitor .

YA It was a graduation project really, I was only trying to practice my skills as a director in making my first short documentary.

Back in about 2000, I was living in Brooklyn, I was trying to finish my first book, I was wandering around dazed every day because I wrote from 12 a.m. to 5 a.m.

And then I spent a year going to long, tedious, boring meetings, trying to sell this logo through to a huge corporation to the point of tears.

When I was in Huntington, trying to get a few things to work when they weren't, I thought If I had a magic wand, what would I do? And I thought, You know what?

And the scale of my work, and the kinds of ideas I'm playing with when I first saw an Imax film, I almost immediately thought, There's a real resonance between what I'm trying to do and the scale of what I try to do as a photographer.

But he wrote something that I think he did while I tried to do in this pyramid. He called it The Road Ahead, or the Road Behind.

I was trying to remember all the guidebooks, and all I could remember was, Only answer the question they're asking.

And what I was trying to do there was direct your eye in the space, so that you would perceive the geometry in a different way, and that the casework wouldn't break up the space.

So I was trying to, you know, take the engineer's version Can we build a mechanical system in inorganic materials that will do the same thing?

I was not arguing for protectionism, but rather sounding a cautionary note that we must be aware of the downside risks and be prepared to deal with them.

I'm trying to sleep.

And I was trying to figure if there was some way we could build something that would capitalize on that and try and get people back up energy, in case the crisis really came.

For example, when I had a cluster of all the beautiful talks, someone thought I was just trying to find the ultimate pick up line.

So what I've been trying to tell you today is things even as ordinary as a grain of sand can be truly extraordinary if you look closely and if you look from a different and a new point of view.

So what I was trying to do is think of a way that we could study suspended animation to think about a way to reproduce, maybe, what happened to the skier.

I wanted to spread the message further and use my experience to try to break cultural barriers and stereotypes, and show another side to the country to people in my region, she says.

I have to try.

I'm trying to help.

I'm trying to improve infrastructure.

And I'm trying harder and harder.

Mom, I'm really trying.

I'm trying to sleep.

I'm only trying to help.

I'm trying to help you.

I had to give it a try.

So now I'm no longer trying to figure out what I'm going to do I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to get out of this room.

Because I was doing this while I was making these pictures, I realized that I could add still another thing I was trying to make a subject something that would interfere with the themes, so chocolate is very good, because it has it brings to mind ideas that go from scatology to romance.

So what am I trying to say? I'm trying to tell you that there's a new wave on the continent.

The last thing I'm going to tell you about is a series of projects called Songs You Already Know, where the idea was, I was trying to figure out to address particular kinds of emotions with group projects.

I'm not trying to deprive you of your rights.

I've never tried driving a car.

I'm trying to be happy.