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The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

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Because I’m very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like they overtake you.

– Emma Roberts

There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.

– Dan Reynolds

I’ve never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn’t like it, but it’s something I’ve always wanted to try.

– Flume

I’m the know-nothing. I’m curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I’m the audience’s representative.

– David Pogue

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that’s in my vocabulary. But I try.

– Pamela Anderson

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms’ length.

– Craig Charles

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

– Edsger Dijkstra

Usually, like, on ‘Mean Girls,’ the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout the movie, where people just don’t really get a break from laughing. And if they do, it’s for a brief emotional scene, and then we’re going to once again try to knock them on their heels again with comedy.

– Mark Waters

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O’Connor. No one should even try.

– David Sedaris

I feel like I’m attracted to characters who have one foot firmly planted on the ground. And their heads up in the clouds somewhere. Practical dreamers. They try to impress you that they’ve got this whole thing figured out, but there’s more going on inside their heads than you might imagine.

– Mary Steenburgen

BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don’t have a lease to clean up.

– Carl Safina

The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real.

– Eric Braeden

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

– Edward Hopper

I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be.

– Miguel Indurain

I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages… I don’t seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

– Elizabeth Kostova

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

– Douglas Adams

The word ‘living’ has so many connotations that I’m almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I’m then downgrading all the other significances of that word.

– Francis Collins

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

You’re the one who likes cigars right? Try smoking this.

– Franco Nero

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.

– Duncan Sheik

I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.

– Giancarlo Esposito

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

– Chris Kattan

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn’t have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

– Floyd Abrams

I started ‘American Born Chinese’ as a mini-comic. I would write and draw a chapter, photocopy a hundred or so copies at the corner photocopy store, and then try to sell them on consignment through local comics shops. If I could sell maybe half a dozen, I’d be doing okay.

– Gene Luen Yang

I try firstly to make buildings humane.

– Moshe Safdie

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

– Derek Walcott

Countries that perceive themselves to be vulnerable can be expected to try to redress that vulnerability – and in some cases, they will pursue clandestine weapons programs.

– Mohamed ElBaradei

I think every actor wants to try out different things.

– Donnie Yen

When I make mistakes, I just get on with it. I don’t try to impress with that killer pass to make sure everybody notices me.

– Charlie Adam

I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

– Milos Zeman

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