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I can't think of any punk who's put on an acoustic and hasn't just tried to sound like James Taylor.
— Buzz Osborne
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I was looking for long term, and, my Lev ... he would give me long term. My heart belonged to him. Lord help the person who tried to get between us.
— Belle Aurora
I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.
— Tamara Taylor
I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.
— Charlize Theron
I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead.
— Lee Hazlewood
When I let my mind wander back that far, what I see is how hard we tried to be our best for one another. In
— George Hodgman
Get the hell away from my boyfriend, witch.
Boyfriend.
Was that what I was?
I tried to smile. Instead, I blacked out. — Kami Garcia
Boyfriend.
Was that what I was?
I tried to smile. Instead, I blacked out. — Kami Garcia
Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
— Art Linkletter
I tried to tell you that it's not Spade in there."
"You could have tried harder. I absolutely never needed to know that Ian was pierced down there. — Jeaniene Frost
"You could have tried harder. I absolutely never needed to know that Ian was pierced down there. — Jeaniene Frost
Rose found her solace in her religion.
I tried to find my own solace in running away from my own. — Andie J Fessey
I tried to find my own solace in running away from my own. — Andie J Fessey
Me not showing any emotion is not the best for me. I've tried that. It kind of bottles up, and then at some point explodes.
— Donald Young
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
— Larry Brilliant
I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me.
— Mitchell Baker
Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.
— Thuy Trang
I'd tried to explain to her that she needed to stop seeing the world through pretty-girl glasses. It skewed her perspectives.
— Sariah Wilson
It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.
— Antwone Fisher
I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.
— Janis Ian
Harry tried every variation of 'I need to see what Draco Malfoy is doing inside you' that he could think of for a whole hour, at
— J.K. Rowling
If Frank and I tried to be something, it would be *real*, in a way that was scary - but also really exciting -Emily
— Morgan Matson
human handprint made about 30,000 years ago, on the wall of the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southern France. Somebody tried to say, 'I was here!
— Yuval Noah Harari
I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism.
— Trevor Dunn
They tried to get me-I got them first! (suicide note)
— Vachel Lindsay
I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
— Gary Carter
I tried to pretend that I was sitting in the stands with a buddy watching the game - poking him in the ribs when something exciting happened.
— Curt Gowdy
I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks.
— Shandy L. Kurth
You can't break through Hollywood formulaic points of view. I've tried, and I think I was more successful than anybody at doing it.
— Roseanne Barr
What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.
— David Copperfield
I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
— B.B. King
I'm so fat and I'm so depressed; last night I tried to hang myself - but the rope broke.
— Joan Rivers
I made a noise in my throat and tried to remember why I thought I'd missed her the last couple of days.
— Jay Crownover
I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.
— Wesley Snipes
People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'
— Mario Cuomo
I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.
— Patrick Rothfuss
I don't have so many friends I can afford to drop one just because he tried to kill me.
— Loren D. Estleman
I think I tried on the hardcore scene's outfits maybe once, and then I just figured I'd stick to Hawaiian shirts.
— Dave Sitek
I tried to remain skeptical. I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it.
— Ernest Cline
When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.
— Bryan Ferry
I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.
— Kate Hudson
I'm a very shy person and I never tried to do theater.
— Sophia Loren
If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
— Brian Eno
Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible.
— Eric Drooker
I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.
— Jason Patric
I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on.
— Victor Salva
"I tried, once," said Bernard, with a rueful smile. "Yup! I tried." He gazed thoughtfully out the window.
— Carey Rockwell
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
— Francois Rabelais
At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.
— Troy Vincent
He tried to turn me into a buffet?" I gritted my teeth. "Before he killed me? He couldn't kill me first and then eat me? That's just fucking rude.
— Rob Thurman
I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. From that moment I became so embedded in boxing. I found a friend in boxing.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I tried never to take anything for granted.
— Cilla Black
I tried to put on a smile but, being too cold, I could only manage a grin. That's one reason why I don't like winter: smiles become abstract.
— Elie Wiesel
I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least I'd know that I tried.
— Michelle Branch
I've always tried to do pictures that don't date.
— David Bailey
I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.
— Amy Heckerling
I knew I shouldn't be eating fried chips, but I'm just not a fan of baked chips, as much as I tried them.
— Keith Belling
I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of my life.
— Dave Keuning
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
— David Bailey
Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.
— Cecilia Bartoli
Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.
— Albert Einstein
I worked thirteen years, got me nowhere. I feel like I tried it their way, and to hell with them. Now I'm going to try it my way.
— Lee Child
I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.
[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.] — Gail Borden
[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.] — Gail Borden
I didn't come up with the lie. It wasn't mine. They handed the lie to me, and I tried like hell to make it work for a while.
— Kenneth Logan
I used to hold a fiery wind
and I tried to determine the direction
where poetry would fly. — Alda Merini
and I tried to determine the direction
where poetry would fly. — Alda Merini
His condescending tone irked me even more. "Sex isn't the only way to show a person how you feel." "I know. I tried to give you a nightclub.
— Laurelin Paige
All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.
— Bobby Hull
When a man's faith is never tried, I don't think he'll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn?
— McCoy Tyner
It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
— Kenneth Williams
I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]
— Augusten Burroughs
I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.
— Ryan Gosling
I love weed so much I tried to marry juana
— Lil' Wayne
'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.
— Joe Abercrombie
I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.
— Dinah Shore
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
— Ansel Adams
Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn't have tried to turn ya into a snake.
— Michelle M. Pillow
I didn't want people to accuse me of being really depressive. I really tried to fight against that and not have a complete downer about the subject.
— Joe Casey
By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.
— Sadie Frost
I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
— Lorna Luft
I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.
— Billy Sheehan
Have you noticed that it is usually easier to judge than obey? Religious people are especially good at it. I tried
— Elizabeth Musser
I've tried to tell the truth. But I would say that, wouldn't I? In any case it has to be my truth. What other truth could I possibly know?
— Tony Garnett
I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value ...
— Mark Tobey