- Nov 07, 2020
Try Quotes
The effort behind every attempt.
This set of try quotes ranges from a band's blunt ambition to take on the world, to a more disciplined goal of getting enough sleep during a busy week. Another reflects on the long odds of producing world-class achievement even from strong institutions. Related themes continue in our Best quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
- Blocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.
- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.
- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most developer tools try to shield you from actually writing code in constructing the GUI bits or the database bits. Yet when you do write code you usually get glass teletypes where high tech is keyword coloring.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about ten, I was very impressed by the way Tarzan could swing through the trees from vine to vine. No one ever told me, 'Don't try this at home.'
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020