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I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.
Jonathan Hickman
Sad
Me
Made
Reading
Year
Books
Spent
Tried
Because
Reading Books
Comics
Get
Trying
Quit
Getting
Graduated
After
Initially
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.
Jonathan Kozol
Book
Writing
School
Job
First
Reading
White
Would
Tried
About
Write
Ads
First Grade
Read
Learned
Were
Grade
Taught
Children
Want
Anyone
Happen
Suburban
Who
Applications
Imagine
I got fairly good grades, but I was bad at woodwork. They said I tried hard, but the result was hopeless.
Jonathan Stroud
Good
Result
Hopeless
Bad
Tried
Fairly
Said
Got
Grades
Woodwork
Hard
Good Grades
My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.
Jonathan Winters
Sad
Funny
Me
Strange
People
Mother
Father
Mother And Father
Tried
Always
Were
Very
Which
I've always tried to honour my dad and what he did for Yorkshire, which for him frequently meant putting the county's cause before his own. But my late boyhood, my early teens and my adolescence were full of net sessions and practice drills he never witnessed, ups and downs he never knew about and matches he never saw.
Jonny Bairstow
Cause
Ups And Downs
Practice
Before
Own
Late
Teens
Saw
Honour
Tried
About
Net
Adolescence
Drills
Never
He
Knew
Putting
County
Him
Frequently
Matches
Witnessed
Always
Boyhood
Were
His
Did
Yorkshire
Ups
Which
Meant
Full
Dad
Downs
Early
A lot of kids can't identify with the things I've done and where I'm from and who I am as an individual. That's why I've tried to be a person and live my life in a way that can be identified by all cultures.
Jordan Burroughs
Life
My Life
Live
Way
Kids
Tried
Individual
Identified
Identify
Am
Lot
Cultures
Person
Done
Where
Who
Why
Things
I feel maybe at times I've just been a bit too desperate to do well, almost tried too hard. But even though I haven't contributed as I would have liked, I've still enjoyed the cricket just as much.
Jos Buttler
Desperate
Too
Cricket
Bit
Though
Would
Tried
Almost
Feel
Liked
Well
Still
Been
Times
Maybe
Just
Just As Much
Much
Hard
Even
Enjoyed
Because I tried to everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes.
Jose Canseco
Best
Me
World
Achieve
Become
Believe
Other
Everything
Possible
Tried
Hormones
Had
Steroids
Because
Doing
Were
Lot
Yes
Against
Helped
Growth
Compete
Player
Players
When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Work
Women
Meet
Tried
Paris
French
French Women
I went to USC and tried to learn about the other side of the camera a little bit.
Joseph Mazzello
Other
Side
Bit
Tried
About
Learn
Camera
Little
Little Bit
USC
I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girlfriend. I wasn't ever sought after. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court when I tried that.
Josh Brolin
School
Complete
Kid
Laughed
Tried
Geek
Girlfriend
Tennis
Had
Tennis Court
Picked
Hot
Sought
Court
Got
Braces
Lot
Off
After
Who
Ever
Awkward
There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.
Josh Duhamel
You
Yourself
Long
Fall
Think
Too
Tell
Bad
Tried
Stay
Staying
Bad Habits
Tend
Tendency
Habits
Certain
Start
What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I've tried to open that door as wide as possible. These songs are a giant step closer to who I really am and what my music is all about. Hence the title.
Josh Groban
Music
Time
Me
People
Giant
Possible
Tried
About
Through
Open
Songs
Step
Know
Most
Am
Closer
Door
Title
Really
Who
Hence
Wide
It was a long period of time where I tried to figure out what worked, what didn't work.
Josh Lucas
Work
Time
Long
Out
Tried
Long Period
Period
Where
Worked
Figure
I tried to play some trumpet and stuff, so I had to figure that out. I record everything in my house.
Joshua Ostrander
Everything
Out
Tried
Record
Some
Had
Stuff
House
Trumpet
Figure
Play
I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.
Judy Collins
Music
Ways
Tried
Make
Timeless
I worked in a supermarket for a year; I worked in a finance department at a university, a pub, busking and singing. I tried to be a nanny for about three weeks.
Julia Davis
Finance
Three
Singing
Year
Tried
About
Supermarket
Weeks
Nanny
Department
Pub
Worked
University
I can't do jokes. I've always come from left field and tried to subvert conventional comedy. I started as a rebellion against that - albeit a very soft and surreal rebellion. It's escapist.
Julian Barratt
Jokes
Rebellion
Comedy
Field
Tried
Come
Always
Surreal
Left
Left Field
Very
Escapist
Conventional
Against
Subvert
Albeit
Started
Soft
And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.
Julian Bond
Day
Meeting
Meetings
Our
Tell
Tried
About
Give
Higher
Never
Instituted
Announcing
Policy
Pass
Issue
End
Anyone
Board
Us
Profile
Resolutions
Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.
Julian Castro
Health
Care
Before
President
President Obama
Seven
Presidents
All Americans
Obama
Tried
Him
Health Care
Democrats
Democrats And Republicans
Got
Expand
American
Done
Republicans
She's in a situation she tried to, that's what's complicated. She followed orders; she called off the raid. This is a dangerous situation. Somebody in DC police went ahead and started.
Julianne Moore
Dangerous
Complicated
Police
Somebody
Situation
Tried
Followed
She
Off
Orders
Raid
Started
I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, 'Oh, you'll get a much better education in life.' I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it.
Julie Andrews
Life
Education
You
Better
Mother
Wish
Though
Tried
Some
Could
Had
Said
Always
Get
Did
Whatsoever
Oh
Much
Extent
There were times when I tried to hide my muscles. When you're a young girl, you hear, 'You're really strong,' or, 'You have really toned arms.' In my head, it wasn't something that should be said about a girl. It should be more, 'You're pretty.'
Julie Ertz
You
Hide
Strong
Girl
Young
Tried
Pretty
About
Something
More
Head
Arms
Said
Were
Hear
Times
Young Girl
Really
Should
Toned
Muscles
I've tried open-ended jobs and found myself incredibly unhappy. I don't like the monomania of showing up every day and doing the same thing. I don't know where my next cheque is coming from, I don't know where my next job is coming from, I have really sketchy health insurance, but I need variety in my life.
Julie Klausner
Life
Myself
Health
Day
Every Day
Unhappy
Job
My Life
Same Thing
Every
Incredibly
Jobs
Tried
Variety
Open-Ended
Like
Know
Health Insurance
Insurance
Cheque
Coming
Doing
Up
Same
Where
Really
Next
Showing
Showing Up
Found
Thing
Need
You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.
Julius Erving
Saying
Good
You
Tried
Rationalize
Take
Know
Deal
Always
Got
Upside
Downside
I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to have a sharpness to do those shows, especially some of the ones I did in later years.
June Lockhart
Funny
Me
You
Guess
Later
Saw
Those
Tried
Some
Knew
Sharpness
Because
Always
Years
Did
Literate
Producers
Shows
Alert
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