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- Page 38I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.
Samuel Barber
From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.
James Daly
Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.
Ann Rule
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
Anne Rice
The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.
Grover Norquist
When I used to go into bars people would try and fight me. Women would punch me 10 years ago or put cigarettes out on my arm or my face. But it doesn't seem to happen any more. They show us a lot of love.
Johnny Knoxville
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George Eliot
It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.
Sonia Johnson
I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.
Dick Bruna
I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.
Simon Sinek
I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
Ethel Waters
Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
Jimmy Connors
It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
Wanda Jackson
I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.
Jane Fonda
It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
Bernard Baruch
You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.
Lawrence Taylor
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
Thomas Fuller