#tried

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life. ↗

— Amy Tan

#also #completely #did #fiction #first

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#around #different #i #listen #lot

Then I thought I was going to be a photographer. I tried a hand at darkroom technician. I played in a band. It took me quite some time to discover that I wanted to write. ↗

— Guy Johnson

#darkroom #discover #going #hand #i

But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#brutal #children #even #going #had

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#been #before #being #being myself #characters

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253. ↗

— Peter King

#attacks #blindly #bring #done #down

I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me. ↗

— Regina King

#career #doing #everything #flexible #i

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#beware #bugs #code #correct #i

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#arrogant #be careful #blog #careful #combat

I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it. ↗

— Bill Kreutzmann

#cool #drummer #fingers #i #i tried