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From an early age, I tried to take in all the instructions of all the coaches I had.
Gabriel Jesus
Age
Tried
Take
Had
Instructions
Coaches
Early
Early Age
A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
Gail Devers
Myself
Vision
Distract
Looking
To Be Honest
Ran
Say
Tried
See
Name
Know
Call
Because
Always
Am
Scoreboard
Lot
Up
Times
Just
Where
Tunnel
Tunnel Vision
Race
Honest
Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
Galina Vishnevskaya
Musical
Tried
Shade
Russian
More
Voice
Color
Emphasizing
Pictures
Know
Audience
Understood
Wanting
Paint
Using
Boldly
Nuance
As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
Gao Xingjian
Women
World
Men
Worlds
Possible
Tried
Pursue
Mystery
Writer
Always
Male
Women Are
Views
Many
Present
When I played cricket for the West Indies, I never worried. I never really watched anyone else. I had a job to do, and I tried to do it to the best of my ability.
Garfield Sobers
Best
Job
Cricket
Else
Worried
Tried
Ability
Indies
Never
Had
West
Anyone
Anyone Else
Really
Played
Watched
I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
Garry Wills
Life
Time
Respect
My Life
Nothing
Tried
Fond
Fact
Priests
Clear
Am
Often
In Fact
Against
Then
Should
Many
I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.
Gary Ackerman
Life
People
Blessed
Greedy
Needy
Kick
Projects
Tyrants
Kid
Hungry
Tried
Feed
Demanded
Protect
Go
Led
Poor
Elderly
Personally
Defend
I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
Gary Dourdan
Possibly
Tried
Could
Never
Unconventional
Categories
Liked
Boxes
Always
Much
Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.
Gary Johnson
Work
Better
Car
Long
Country
Single
Every
Drank
Tell
Would
Would-Be
Tried
Week
Drinks
Better Off
No-One
Single Night
Off
Yes
Get
Wheel
Behind
Anybody
Want
Many
Night
Every Single Night
In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
Gary McCord
Me
Black
Mouth
Way
Tried
Bet
Only
Could
He
Put
Named
His
Balls
Close
Five
Get
James
Golf
Golf Balls
Then
Event
Player
Two
I've tried my hand at everything... trying to whittle down the right profession for myself. I tried my hand at clothes, I've modelled, but nothing really worked for me. I didn't really enjoy it, and maybe I was not really good enough.
Gauri Khan
Myself
Good
Me
Clothes
Nothing
Down
Enjoy
Enough
Everything
Tried
Hand
Modelled
Trying
Maybe
Worked
Really
Whittle
Profession
Right
Ranbir was my first choice for 'Ek Deewana Tha.' I tried to get in touch in with. Forget about meeting Ranbir. I couldn't even meet his secretary. Yes, even the secretary refused to meet me.
Gautham Menon
Me
First
Meet
Meeting
Secretary
Tried
About
Touch
His
Yes
Forget
Get
Refused
Choice
Even
Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
Gavin Bryars
Technically
Assured
Tried
Something
Develop
Over
Years
Which
I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping.
Gaylord Perry
Old
Salt
Everything
Reckon
Tried
Pepper
Chocolate
Apple
Sauce
Cap and trade is not an easy one for refiners, so we tried to get some moderation in the bill, and we did, but not near as much I would like.
Gene Green
Would
Tried
Easy
Some
Like
Trade
Get
Did
Moderation
Cap
Much
Bill
Near
I've tried to write from my own understanding of identity in all my comics, whether it's about superheroes or historical conflicts or monkey gods.
Gene Luen Yang
Understanding
Own
Monkey
Tried
About
Superheroes
My Own
Write
Identity
Comics
Historical
Gods
Whether
Conflicts
We tried to limit human versus human conflict only to those cases where it could be powerfully motivated and made completely believable.
Gene Roddenberry
Conflict
Made
Those
Tried
Cases
Only
Could
Limit
Motivated
Versus
Human
Where
Believable
If my mother hadn't laughed at the funny things I did, I probably wouldn't be a comic actor. After she had her first heart attack, the doctor said, 'Try to make her laugh.' And that was the first time I tried to make anyone laugh.
Gene Wilder
Funny
Time
Heart
Doctor
Mother
Try
First
Funny Things
Laugh
Laughed
Tried
Attack
Had
She
Make
First Time
Said
Comic
Did
Anyone
After
Actor
Her
Things
I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.'
Genie Francis
People
Be Kind
Remember
Hair
Britney
Britney Spears
Once
Kids
Kind
Tried
City
Atlantic
Adulation
Weird
Nobody
Like
Because
Said
Were
Screaming
Being
Explain
Sea
Used
Spears
Cool
Mommy
Deserves
Pulling
If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.
Geoffrey Boycott
Me
Field
Bat
Batting
Tried
Had
Well
Him
Off
Hit
Get
My films, I've tried to put a message into them. It's not about the gore; it's not about the horror element that are in them. It's more about the message, for me. That's what it is, and I'm using this platform to be able to show my feelings of what I think.
George A. Romero
Me
Feelings
Think
Films
Tried
Able
About
Horror
More
Put
Message
Gore
Them
Show
Using
Platform
Element
I've made six zombie films; I've tried consciously to make each one different from the next.
George A. Romero
Made
Films
Tried
Make
Six
Different
Next
Each
Each One
Zombie
My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing with his guitar, his electric guitar, and he tried to show me some chords, but my hands were too small.
George Benson
Me
Guitar
Mother
Old
Met
Too
Seven
Guitar Player
Tried
Some
Small
He
Stepfather
Messing
Caught
Were
His
Years
Hands
Electric
Show
Electric Guitar
Chords
Player
Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a folk-art form, really, at its best. At different times, I've tried to push against it as much as I possibly could, but ultimately, it is a folk-art form.
George C. Wolfe
Best
You
Writing
Mind
Sense
Else
Musicals
Rigid
Possibly
Tried
Archetypes
Something
Something Else
Could
Push
Sophisticated
Most
Ultimately
Very
Times
Get
Different
Form
Against
Informed
Them
Much
Really
Different Times
During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.
George Crook
Strong
Before
Elsewhere
Location
Tried
Obliged
Through
Throw
Had
Supposed
Force
Gotten
Canon
Engagement
Use
Village
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
George Haven Putnam
You
Conservative
Old
Conservatism
Say
Adherence
Destructive
Tried
Something
New
Sort
Revolutionary
While
Against
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