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When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.
Ruskin Bond
Library
Remember
Books
Tried
Favourite
Having
Writers
Read
Emulate
Up
Often
Growing
Growing Up
If you're a waiter, the worst thing you can do is go to work resenting your job. This will sound trite - but it's the reality, and part of my personality - yet when I was a waiter, I tried to be the best waiter, and when I was a bingo-caller I tried to be the best bingo-caller.
Russell Crowe
Work
Best
You
Reality
Personality
Will
Job
Worst
Worst Thing
Tried
Trite
Part
Sound
Go
Waiter
Your
Thing
I've always put out positivity, and I've always been very open and proud throughout my whole career, and at no point have I ever tried to cause controversy or just say something that wasn't totally in support of everyone in the community.
Russell Tovey
Cause
Community
Everyone
Positivity
Say
Out
Tried
Totally
Something
No Point
Point
Throughout
Open
Put
Support
Always
Proud
Been
Very
Just
Controversy
Whole
Ever
Career
There are people in your past that you can't shake free from no matter how hard you tried. There's a certain process that you have to go through to say goodbye. That fire doesn't get extinguished. You have to put a gun to it.
Ruta Gedmintas
You
People
Matter
Gun
Free
Fire
Past
Say
Tried
Shake
Through
Put
Goodbye
How
Go
Get
Process
Certain
Your
Hard
Extinguished
The Sixth Amendment secures to persons charged with crime the right to be tried by an impartial jury reflecting a fair cross-section of the community.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Crime
Community
Charged
Tried
Impartial
Cross-Section
Fair
Reflecting
Amendment
Jury
Sixth
Persons
Right
In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sad
Man
Women
Smart
Too
Though
Tried
He
Sad Thing
Feel
Make
Were
Very
Many
Even
Thing
I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.
Ruth J. Simmons
Family
Tried
Although
Were
Children
Youngest
Organize
Disputes
Things
When I made the first album, I was 24, and at that age, you have nothing to say. I just played the music I loved and tried to do it justice.
Ry Cooder
Music
You
Justice
Age
Made
First
Nothing
Say
Tried
Just
Loved
Played
Album
I've tried to work as hard as possible.
Ryan Babel
Work
Possible
Tried
Hard
Girls come up to me and start crying. Or they're so nervous, they are shaking. Some have tried to sneak grabs of my abs and my butt!
Ryan Guzman
Me
Nervous
Girl
Tried
Some
Shaking
Come
Crying
Sneak
Up
Butt
Start
My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a little devil kid.
Ryan Lochte
Day
Every Day
Devil
Practice
Every
Kicked
Kid
Out
Tried
Up
Get
Little
Coach
Swim
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
I formed this thing called the Half Foundation, and what I tried to do is quantify hiring practices in Hollywood. Half the population is women, so half of the storytellers should be women. Fifty percent of all the directors in my company are women, and it will forever be that way.
Ryan Murphy
Women
Will
Half
Way
Tried
Percent
Directors
Quantify
Practices
Hiring
Forever
Formed
Storytellers
Hollywood
Fifty
Should
Company
Population
Foundation
Thing
Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.
S. Truett Cathy
People
Before
Beginning
Tried
Putting
Operate
How
Profits
I grew up raiding my brother's comic book stash. I tried to lose myself in fiction.
Sabaa Tahir
Myself
Book
Lose
Tried
Brother
Comic
Comic Book
Up
Fiction
Grew
The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
Sabine Baring-Gould
Tyranny
King
Power
Settlers
Harold
Despotic
Tried
Noble
Crush
Make
Himself
Were
Left
Norway
Native
Native Land
Iceland
Land
Avoid
Who
Original
I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.
Sabrina Carpenter
Myself
Me
People
Too Much
Too
Other
Say
Tried
Never
Attention
Weird
Weird Thing
Make
Said
Always
Just
Which
Much
Much Attention
Paid
Thing
As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
Sachin Tendulkar
Work
Me
Crazy
People
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Mac
Kid
Tried
John
Wearing
About
Liked
Because
Quite
Loved
While
By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.
Sadie Frost
Myself
Tried
Had
Bought
Always
Self-Sufficient
Modeling
Flat
It's not at all a secret that I was one of the co-founders of Brand New Congress, and we've never tried to hide our goals.
Saikat Chakrabarti
Hide
Goals
Congress
Secret
Our
Tried
Never
New
Brand
Brand New
For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.
Salma Hayek
Sad
Home
Character
Me
Book
First
Gave
Colin
Tried
Wrap
Emotional
Over
Involved
Crying
Read
Edition
Got
Movie
Really
Present
Started
With a song called 'House Party,' you'd expect it to be more about a big party, not as much about a relationship, so we tried to put a little bit of a unique twist on it.
Sam Hunt
Relationship
You
Song
Big
Party
Bit
Tried
About
More
Put
House
Expect
Little
Little Bit
Much
Unique
Twist
I've always tried to stray towards characters who are way more faceted than your standard leading man role, and I've been fortunate to play some parts who have this awkward tension to them.
Sam Palladio
Man
Way
Characters
Tried
Some
More
Tension
Leading
Towards
Leading Man
Parts
Always
Been
Than
Role
Them
Your
Fortunate
Standard
Who
Stray
Play
Awkward
With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.
Samantha Harvey
Song
Tricks
Tried
Construct
Narrative
Traditional
Very
Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sad record of the last century shows that the walls the United States tries to build around genocidal societies almost inevitably shatter.
Samantha Power
Sad
Genocide
Walls
Build
States
Tried
Tries
Record
Architects
Generally
Almost
Contain
Shatter
Around
Inevitably
Western
Governments
Century
Shows
United
United States
Societies
Last
Last Century
'Dhalgren' is the kind of book in which you can look for pretty much anything you want. I tried to put as much into it as I could at the time.
Samuel R. Delany
Time
You
Book
Kind
Tried
Pretty
Pretty Much Anything
Could
Put
Look
Want
Anything
Which
Much
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
People
Critic
Would
One Thing
Tried
Poets
Could
Failed
Talents
Another
Been
Reviewers
Historians
Turn
Who
Therefore
Thing
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