There was no guarantee of victory if I remained the same or just tried to be myself, but there was certain defeat in pretending to be something I was not.
...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.
I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full. And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to.
I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.
When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.
I've actually tried to roast somebody that I don't like, and it doesn't go well. Either they're a bad sport or I'm not as funny as I could be.
I was born in Philadelphia, and I've tried to escape that city all my life. I end up writing plays that force me back to Philadelphia, at least psychologically if not physically.
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.
I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.
This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken.
I'm a natural golden retriever at heart. I'm fine with that now, but there was a time when I tried to keep myself from jumping up on people. I had to make myself sit.
Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.
One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she sounds.
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.
I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image.
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into a people pleaser. I always tried to do what was expected of me, and I constantly sought reassurance from the adults around me that I was ...
I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23.
