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• You never knew what you could get away with until you tried.

  Karen Marie Moning

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• I never understood why you tried so hard to fit in, when you were obviously meant to stand out.

  Tonya Hurley

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• You can’t just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 – which kind of shows how long those odds are.

  Stephan Pastis

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• I tried surfing once in Brazil, but I’m kind of clumsy.

  Lee Pace

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• Over the years I’ve tried to be clear about the things that are important in life, the things that matter, and I’ve tried to pursue them, and, I’ve had a certain sense of ‘stickability,’ hanging in there, and I suppose that’s me.

  Peter Hollingworth

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• I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable, and the balance and the true and tried, you go down to quite bizarre things which are very risky for people, particularly people who are young or vulnerable or unable to discriminate.

  Peter Hollingworth

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• Many people, many girls have tried to teach me the rules to football. And you would think that it would get in my head that way, but I just don’t understand it.

  John Hodgman

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• Andy Gray is a great pundit and a great co-commentator. I couldn’t co-commentate for love nor money. I’ve tried but I just can’t do it, so as an all-rounder I’d say Andy’s much better than I am.

  Alan Hansen

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• I tried to be normal once. Worst two minutes of my life.

  Unknown

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• We’ve tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, ‘Yeah, if I was Superman, that’s what I’d do.’ Even though he’s an alien, he’s more relatable, more human.

  Zack Snyder

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• I’m definitely a character actor. I’ve tried to limit anything with a uniform because I’ve done it so much. There’s a lot more I can offer. It’s just getting people to see something else.

  Brent Sexton

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• When I turned 18, my agent was like, ‘You should change from Ricky to Rick.’ So I thought it was a good idea. Rick never really fit. I tried for 18 years to make it work, and no one wanted to call me Rick. It should always have been Ricky. That’s what it always should have been, so I’m going back to it.

  Richard Bartlett Schroder Jr.

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• I really try to write every day. It’s hard, but it’s my favorite thing to do, so it’s usually not too, too hard.

  Karen Russell

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• 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.

  Jeff Ross

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• I’ve tried just about every crazy diet you can imagine.

  Brooke Burke

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• I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you’re hungry again.

  Rod Stewart

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• I’ve always tried to do pictures that don’t date.

  David Bailey

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• When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn’t work.

  Joseph Gordon Levitt

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• I’ve always been someone who’s really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn’t very good so maybe that’s why, but it just seems like I’ve been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don’t really remember what it was like before. It’s just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day.

  Jude Law

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• My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, ‘What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?’ That’s terrible habit for an actor, but that’s a good habit for director. So I became a director.

  David Mamet

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