#tried

'The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#biggest #copy #damage #did #everyone

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place. ↗

— Xun Zi

#could #distance #far #farther #found

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#appointments #change #hours #i #i am

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us. ↗

— Maude Adams

#best #day #enough #hard #hard thing

I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened. ↗

— Andy Williams

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The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain. ↗

— Henry Chadwick

#forest #game #ground #hard #however

I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?' ↗

— Matt Long

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I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#exhaustion #power #powerlessness #tried #life

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#career #everything #good #good work #hope

I have always tried to stay current. ↗

— Rick Baker

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