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• Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

  Jane Pauley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Preposterous, Tried

• I’ve come to recognize what I call my ‘inside interests.’ Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

  Jane Pauley

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  Tags in Sort, Tried

• I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

  Dolly Parton

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  Tags in Tried, Mainstream

• I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

  Al Pacino

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  Tags in Characters, Tried

• All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That’s why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.

  Martha Beck

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  Tags in Attach, Tried

• Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

  Lili Taylor

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  Tags in Cynical, Tried

• With everything I do, I just try to be myself.

  Kevin Durant

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• The only thing I really recommend, if you’re starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they’re unique.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Someone, Successful, Myself, Tried

• You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you’ve to take the downside.

  Julius Erving

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  Tags in Tried

• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Topics in Suffering, Uncategorized

  Tags in Tried, Play

• I have always tried to stay current.

  Rick Baker

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  Tags in Stay, Tried

• As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

  Carly Simon

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  Tags in Tried, Singer

• I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn’t always be the best, but I tried to be.

  Frank Robinson

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  Tags in Tried, Best, Always

• After I quit dancing, I tried a lot of jobs. But I could always bake.

  Ron Ben Israel

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Tried

• We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.

  Dean Rusk

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  Tags in Tried

• Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Play, Tried

• For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can’t do much with the script. I’ve tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I’ve found it turns out to be a waste of time.

  Cliff Martinez

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  Tags in Write, Tried, Music

• I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

  Beth Henley

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  Tags in Theatre, Tried

• During my career several people have tried to push me out the door… Nobody has succeeded yet.

  Ferdinand Piech

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  Tags in People, Career, Tried

• It is hard to fall but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Tried, Succeed, Hard