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I've never tried writing at a coffeehouse. I just know instinctively it's not for me. — Wentworth Miller

I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders. — Collin C. Peterson

When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas. — Emo Philips

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've tried just about every crazy diet you can imagine. — Brooke Burke

My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it. — Vern Buchanan

I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters. — Charlize Theron

You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried. — Audrey Niffenegger

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard. — Louis C.K.

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

I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life. — Ted Lange

I've been a perfect lady my entire life, and somebody just tried to shoot me, anyway. Grandmother was wrong. Goodness is not its own reward. — Susan Andersen

I've always enjoyed cleaning. Even though they tried to teach us laziness in school. — Peter Hoeg

A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require. — Don DeLillo

I'm not, sexy, am I? God knows, I've tried — Cilla Black

I've tried
to become someone else for a while,
only to discover that he, too, was me. — Stephen Dunn

My buddies, we've always just tried to make each other laugh. I mean, just like all friends hanging out - that's the goal. — Adam Sandler

All my life I've tried to make everybody happy while I just hurt and hide, waiting for someone to tell me it's my turn to decide. — Sara Bareilles

I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre. — Natalie Portman

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex. — Molly Parker

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 be the person who says things no one else wants to say. I've always kept it in house, as opposed to going to the papers. — Eli Manning

I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it. — Sam Worthington

I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts. — Julius Erving

One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it. — Rick Heinrichs

I've tried to make choices. You don't really trust me to. — Kiera Cass

I've never tried to manipulate my image. — Alan Alda

I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that. — Lykke Li

People are always doing that in movies, staring out of windows to signify their hardships. I've tried a few times, but it was pretty boring. — Rachel Bertsche

I've tried so many different ways of meeting the right person. I assumed for years that the first step was to pretend I'm not a hit man. — Jay Stringer

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny. — Aung San Suu Kyi

I've tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry. — Jim C. Hines

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that. — Cliff Martinez

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way. — Paul Allen

I've been in love with audiences all my life, and I've tried to please. I hope I did. — Judy Garland

I've always tried to be funny, or stupid, or whatever. I love making people laugh and I think it comes quite naturally to me. — Brian Littrell

I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other. — Alex Honnold

I've always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it's more rewarding. — Lily Cole

I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible. — Claire Danes

I've tried to be active in civic organizations as well as the Church. — Margaret D. Nadauld

-"Stop"
"I've tried. I can't. These past few days, not knowing if you were okay have been hell."
-"I'm okay."
"I'm not. — Rachel Gibson

I've tried that love thing for the last time. My heart says no, no! Nobody's supposed to be here, but you came along and changed my mind — Deborah Cox

I've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium. — Spike Lee

It does no good to bark at the television,
I said. I've tried it too. So he stopped. — Mary Oliver

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing. — Samuel Hopkins Adams

I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around. — Adam West

As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall. — Melanie Mayron

I can't live, I've tried and I can't. If that sounds simple, it's simple like a mountain is simple. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I'd be more than delighted to go find energy in Club Med. But we've tried and did not find it. — Christophe De Margerie

Ever since I released my first album, I've tried not to use minor chords as the main element in songs. The way I sing is too melancholic. — Jose Gonzalez

I've always tried to be kind of poetic in my lyrical approach. — Erik Rutan

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art. — Tracie Bennett

I approach every week the same. I think I've always tried to be very professional to how I approach the game, my preparation. Every game is important. — Tom Brady

All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time. — Robert Penn Warren

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600. — Babe Ruth

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've always tried to do the smartest and best thing. — Ted Turner

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer. — Aziz Ansari

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. — Morrissey

I don't want to let you go," he said just above a whisper. "I've tried and I can't. The thought of it twists me in a knot. — Rachel Gibson

I've tried crowd surfing but the radiating light that surrounds me kept sending me floating into the heavens. Goddamn I'm beautiful — Thom Yorke

All I know is I've tried my best. — Tiger Woods

Along the way, I've tried not to make the same mistake twice, to learn, to adapt, and to pray for the wisdom to make better choices in the future. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

I've tried to stay away from you, to not touch you, and I've tried so fucking hard not to fall in love with you. — Alison G. Bailey

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've always tried to face life like an oyster does--when given grit, give back a pearl. Ted Miller Brogden — Ted Miller Brogden

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort. — John Updike

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

'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

By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient. — Sadie Frost

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

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've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much. — Jack McDevitt

I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government. — Dalton McGuinty

When I've been anxious, it was because I believed I couldn't handle whatever came my way and instead tried to stop life from happening. — Elizabeth Fox Brewer

I've tried to let the work I do speak. — David Morse

I've tried a lot of things in the off-season, but the only thing I really know is baseball. — Hank Aaron

I've tried to take roles with great demands. — Annette Bening

I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much ... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction. — Imtiaz Ali

All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching. — Bobby Hull

I've tried to pitch 'Borgen - the Musical,' but they just won't listen to me! — Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

I should've appreciated the wonderful child I had, not tried to make you into something else. — Jay Crownover

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction. — Steven Heighton

I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work. — Rupert Grint

My sister Laura's bigger than me
And lifts me up quite easily.
I can't lift her, I've tried and tried;
She must have something heavy inside. — Spike Milligan

I don't think I've ever tried to change anyone. I don't have the energy. — Rupert Everett

What I've tried to do is bring the madness out in the open. Keep it under wraps, and it erupts into wars and violence. — Dory Previn

Your love is better than chocolate. Better than anything else that I've tried. — Sarah McLachlan

I tried to smile but feared I would cry. 'I always wondered what it was like to be shot.'
'Now you've lived to tell the tale. — Cameron Stracher

For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous! — Michael Musto

I only want to write. I don't care about directing really. I've tried it and it was fun, but it's not like I have to. — Catherine O'Hara

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. — Beverly Sills

If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves. — Matt Lanter

I can't remember all the times I've tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass — Adam Duritz