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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock. — Sally Kellerman

I have a roommate, and I signed a year lease. I screwed up! That's like I wrote a joke that didn't work, but now I have to tell it for a year. — Mitch Hedberg

I stepped away from the wall and tried to put on a happy face. It didn't work. "Hi."
"She says that so well." Mal turned to me and winked. — Kylie Scott

Travel wasn't fun if you didn't get to see or do what you wanted; it was merely a different type of work, in a different place. — Chris Pavone

I was afraid I'd fail. So I didn't work.' And there it was, plain as a glass of water, the truth, which he had never admitted to himself. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me. — Tom Smothers

Paulie looked thoughtful. 'Well don't use Elmer's glue,' he warned. 'it sure didn't work on the Blackberry. — Dia Reeves

There are no scores for good intention, it either happened or it didn't. Get to work. — Maria Kang

It wasn't meant to work with them, was it? He didn't know if he could try anymore. — Ann Brashares

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work. — Sean Lennon

I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck — Alison Croggon

It was a good trick, only it didn't work. In — Dashiell Hammett

U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again. — Alan Grayson

It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains? — Linda Fiorentino

The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it. — Foster Friess

I never take drugs. I took ecstasy when I was in Ibiza once, but it didn't work for me. I think I was already on ecstasy when I was born. — Pedro Winter

I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up. — Pat Nixon

I didn't love stickers and unicorns and stuff, but just if I were to ride on the back of a beast to work, I want it to be a frickin' unicorn. — Laura Benanti

I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk. — Arnold Palmer

It made no sense naturewise - owls and songbirds work different shifts, and even if they didn't they would still never be friends. — David Sedaris

I couldn't practice feng shui if I didn't believe in it, and I wouldn't believe in it if I hadn't seen it work. — Clear Englebert

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work. — Kristi Yamaguchi

Nobody thought the direct business model would work. But work it did, and spectacularly. Until it didn't. And therein lies the tale. — Heather Simmons

You're working with models who are looking at their watch, and it didn't work for me. I wanted to have relationships with amazing people. — Thierry Mugler

There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work. — Lynda Barry

First of all, we had to quit playing God. It didn't work. — Alcoholics Anonymous

What modren ideas?" pap said. "I didn't know there was but one idea about work - until it is done, it ain't done, and when it is done, it is. — William Faulkner

We fell in love quickly. We got married very quickly. It didn't work out the way we wanted it to. There's nothing more to it. — Jaime Pressly

I never doubted myself. It just didn't work. — Rajon Rondo

Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it. — Marianne Williamson

If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work. — Yogi Berra

I actually got a crush on Anne Heche when I worked with her on Huckleberry Finn. It didn't work out. — Elijah Wood

I know it's a cliche, but I didn't want to work in an office. — Paul O'Grady

I did like hanging out with all the rock'n'roll boys - it was fun but all those relationships didn't work out. — Denise Van Outen

Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it. — Dave Rowntree

I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore. — Darren Aronofsky

As I pressed the doorbell button it popped off the wall and hung by two colored cords. Obviously it didn't work, so I knocked. — Elle Klass

I didn't arrive at the opportunity to make the world work for everyone by figuring out how to do it. — Werner Erhard

Okay then. The destiny didn't work with the Chosen One. So I'll do it instead. — Deeba

It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work. — Josh Lucas

It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start. — Harvey Pekar

In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time. — Patti LuPone

I had no jealousy of work, no jealousy of money. I was just jealous of women who took advantage of men, because I didn't know how to do it. — Nora Ephron

Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it. — William C. Dudley

I work with gang members, and I feel a kind of affinity and gift, even. But who would've thunk it, you know? I mean, I didn't anticipate it. — Greg Boyle

Yeah, it's unfair that you can get judged by something you didn't do, but it's also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn't work for. — Chris Rock

If there was anything he'd learned in his life, it was to fight fire with fire, and if that didn't work, piss on the fire to put it out. — Marissa Clarke

She thought it was too bad it didn't work the other way around, so you could get braver and smarter as you move up in years. But — Peter Straub

Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.' — Carol S. Dweck

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won. — Betty Cuthbert

At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive. — Naomie Harris

I set out in television with one simple goal: to purchase a Russian bride. Didn't work out. Immigration stuff - it's complicated. — Joss Whedon

You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process. — Meryl Streep

No, I was just trying to burn a hole in the side of your face with my laser vision. It didn't work. — H.M. Ward

Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either. — Michael Bloomberg

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way. — Judd Gregg

I once didn't work out for six weeks. It took me for ever to get the weight off. — David Hasselhoff

I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn't work out. Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging. — John Carmack

'I tried and it didn't work' is a lot better than, 'I wish I'd tried'. — Catherine DeVrye

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian. — Colin Quinn

I didn't get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I'm planning to work hard at it. — Bill Cowher

His poetry was to find the enemy and kill him. It didn't rhyme, but it was still a work in progress. — Shane VanAulen

I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it. — David Bailey

God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later. — Ida Rolf

I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit. — Gary Barlow

A lot of women I worked with didn't respect their clients. I had some clients who didn't respect me, but still you somehow made it work. — Annie Sprinkle

Smirking, he says, Whatever spell you just tried to cast on me, it didn't work, so I think you need to go back to Hogwarts. — Jenny Han

I didn't get fat even when I was pregnant. You have to work very hard at staying slim, and it's a bore. But it's worth it. — Mary Quant

Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out. — Astro Teller

The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it. — Charles Bukowski

Actually, my plan was to be 20-under par after two days but it didn't work — Lee Trevino

I've seen plenty of ballplayers way better than me, but they didn't have the work ethic. It comes down to how bad you want it. — Marcus Giles

I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times. — Thomas A. Edison

When something you make doesn't work, it didn't work, not you. You, you work. You keep trying. — Zach Klein

It didn't work. It didn't work because I knew not to give the best of myself to the worst of people. — A.S. King

Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work. — Kim Novak

School didn't work for me. I hated it. — Gary Paulsen

He was a typical workaholic, driven to succeed and willing to put in the hours to do so. It didn't leave much time for a social life. (Greg) — Lynsay Sands

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 didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them. — Sara Blakely

Just because you believed and it didn't work out your way or according to your timetable, does not mean that it's over. — Jamie Larbi

The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn't work behind and step boldly into a brand new future. — Oprah Winfrey

One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute! — Ted Harrison

it was the night when people got paid and didn't have to work the next day, and so by tradition went out to get drunk and into fights. Then — Iain M. Banks

It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work. — Robert G. Picard

The road to one's fate is never an easy task. What worth would eternity be if you didn't have to work hard to obtain it? — Maren Dille

Your voice is powerful. Your voice has meaning. If it didn't, people wouldn't work so hard to silence you.
Remember that. — Kameron Hurley

I didn't have all the expectations and the publicity. It probably made me work harder and learn more. It was a blessing in disguise. — Dustin Penner

So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn't complain. It was normal. — Bernhard Langer

You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused.
Fang tried to play innocent
but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work. — James Patterson

I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back. — Queen Latifah

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today. — Jonathan Kozol

Claire to Tony: I know you enjoy coffee, I'd offer you some. But, the last time I got you coffee, it didn't work out so well for me. — Aleatha Romig

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it. — Tracey Emin

I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day. — Ryne Sandberg

I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally. — Gene Kelly

I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it. — Norman Tebbit

I did everything I could to establish myself, but it just didn't work that way. I'm not angry about that. — Tim Hardaway

Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work. — Gary Paulsen

I like what I see in the mirror. I liked what I saw in the mirror before. It just didn't work in a bikini. And now it does. So I'm excited! — Jordin Sparks