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

— Beth Henley

#i #i tried #la #meant #miserably

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process. ↗

— Bruce Babbitt

#ago #american #convey #couple #days

I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine. ↗

— Ralph Boston

#beat #competition #did #down #fine

I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show. ↗

— Candace Cameron Bure

#couple #days #did #doing #finish

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#disagreeable #had #i #i tried #last

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#ambition #clicked #first #first thing #five

I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#al #background #classical #classical music #deep

My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#beat #bed #body #cold #cure

I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind. ↗

— George C. Marshall

#because #before #careful #casualties #casualty