#i tried

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw. ↗

— Scott Adams

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Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature. ↗

— Michael P. Anderson

#everything #growing #growing up #had #i

I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did. ↗

— Alan Arkin

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I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

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I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire. ↗

— Douglas Bader

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I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

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Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know? ↗

— Corbin Bernsen

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I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.' ↗

— Sara Blakely

#coming #coming home #dad #encouraged #fail

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