#i tried

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#adult life #bound #flinching #i #i tried

I tried to copy some of his mannerisms at first but it didn't work. And then I just let the spirit of the character grow in me and it just took its rightful place. I started to speak the lines and it felt right. ↗

— Derek Luke

#copy #felt #first #grow #his

I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#beat #called #circle #fell #fit

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people. ↗

— Kim Novak

#felt #find #hard #i #i tried

When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was content with who I was because I was so loved. My mother never told me to lose weight and my father doted on me, but my agent told me. I tried, but I loved Indian food too much. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#because #conscious #content #fat #father

A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned. ↗

— Donna Rice

#after #back #because #broke #company

I feel less adrenaline in my body now, but more in my head. I tried to be at my best, and I succeeded. ↗

— Andriy Shevchenko

#best #body #feel #head #i

I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#career #everything #i #i tried #look

Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting. ↗

— Pat Summerall

#broadcasting #every #everything #facet #got

Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#back #change #come #decided #experiment