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“I've been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I've failed miserably. They get to express their opinions sometimes in the form of news.”

Trying Sometimes Form Opinion News Presses

Author:George W. Bush

“I've been trying to watch my weight a bit, but when I come to Las Vegas, all bets are off. I get enough healthy food in L.A. where the food is the size of a quarter and costs $40 - when I'm in Vegas, I want a steak!”

Want Trying Enough Bits Watches Healthy Cost Weight Size Quarters Vegas Las Vegas Steak Healthy Food

Author:Billy Gardell

“I've been trying to work on my positioning and defensive game.”

Trying Games

Author:Thomas Vanek

“I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.”

Writing Trying Years Firsts Looks Mean Long I Can Remember Interest Lines Produce Favors Merit Fifteen Fifteen Years

Author:Kingsley Amis

“I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.”

Writing Trying Song Sound Simple Giants Gas Coming Out Satellites

Author:Mark Linkous

“I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what I do: I teach them writing.”

Writing Trying Different Helping Teach Conversation Helping Others Campus

Author:Junot Diaz

“I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.”

People Want Looks Used Deals Speech Dinner Latin Awkward

Author:George Eliot

Source: Felix Holt, The Radical

“I've been typecast. People don't want to take a risk or a chance. Quite a few times they've come up to me and say "We want you to do that Russian accent." And I'll be like, "How about if I do an Irish accent or a South African accent," and they don't trust that you can properly pull them off.”

People Chance Risk South Africa

Author:Scott Adkins

“I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed."”

People Long Said Care Horror Don't Care Checks I Don't Care Feds Call Me Bounce

Author:Stephen King

“I've been unaware of how people react to the instrument. People have ideas of what a harp is supposed to sound like, and a lot of them are negative ideas.”

People Ideas Sound Negative Instruments Harps

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I've been under contract since I was 18 and it's all I've ever known. To me, I'm NOT different from anyone else other than the way I make a living.”

Way Different Known Contracts

Author:Chasey Lain

“I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.”

Enough Injury Unfortunate Recovering

Author:Jason Statham

“I've been up and down so many times that I feel as if I'm in a revolving door.”

Ifs Feels Funny Doors Dumb Up And Down Revolving Revolving Doors

Author:Cher

“I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.”

Should Said God Choices Mountain Okay Checks Should I

Author:Bob Dylan

Source: The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career

“I've been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. All around, trying to get the feeling again. The one that makes me shiver, made my knees start to quiver.”

Trying Made Feelings Knees Shiver Quiver Misinterpretation

Author:Barry Manilow

“I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.”

Used

Author:David Bailey

“I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.”

Writing Long Play Used Easy Sound Long Time Guitar Rhythm Chords

Author:Bradford Cox

“I've been using easy-to-understand DC Comics-surrogates to describe him: imagine if Darkseid's son, Orion, joined the Green Lantern Corps to train them to stop Darkseid. That's essentially what Victory is doing in the Galactic Rangers.”

Ifs Easy Imagine Son Victory Green Train Rangers Lanterns Dc Comics Surrogates Orion Green Lantern

Author:Sterling Gates

“I've been using narcotics for 20 years.”

Years Narcotics

Author:Bela Lugosi

“I've been using Steinberg's Cubase exclusively to record and mix my music since the very beginning of my career. It's no exaggeration to say that Cubase has been my partner in bringing my music and message to the world, and, now, they are helping to bring my story to the world as well, as I record the audiobook of my novel.”

World Wells Has Beens Helping Stories Careers Novel Records Messages Partners Exaggeration

Author:Emilie Autumn

“I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it.”

Years Comfortable Macs

Author:Jerry Goldsmith

“I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style... I haven't gotten any public sponsor or anything, because I don't want to seem like I'm trying to sell any particular thing.”

Want Trying Seems Style Havens Particular Sells Editors Sponsors

Author:Daryl Hannah

“I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system - it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes.”

Should Home Causes Overcoming Conviction Primaries Merit Headache Laptops Redeeming Vistas Operating Systems Compatibility

Author:Joel Spolsky

“I've been variations of vegetarian for over 20 years. I'm Canadian so I always say, be the best you can be.”

Years Being The Best Vegetarian Variation

Author:Pamela Anderson

“I've been vegan for 15 years, and it turns out it makes a very big impact on the environment to eat fewer animal products, which cause more greenhouse gases than all of transportation combined. The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking that if people are vegetarian for just one day a week, that makes a huge difference!”

“I've been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It's been all good. I'm obviously much healthier”

Years Half Vegetarian Vegan Funny Inspirational Vegetarian Health Half A Year Vegan Health

Author:Woody Harrelson

“I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.”

Way Eye Numbers Changed Hospitals Vegan Truthful Changed My Life

Author:Travis Barker

“I've been vegetarian for so long now that I don't remember anything different, so it's easy for me to put meals together and make sure my family is eating healthy, too.”

Long Different Together Remember Easy Healthy Eating My Family Meals Vegetarian Eating Healthy

Author:Christina Applegate

“I've been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What atrocity must undergo an animal to satisfy the appetite of those fat men who eat hamburgers!”

Men Animal Happened Fats Witness Vegetarian Vegan Appetite Cows 80s Slaughter Atrocities Hamburgers Fat Man

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“I've been very active in Missouri.”

Active Missouri

Author:Jim Talent

“I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.”

Careers Blessed Personal Life Ungrateful Personal Grooming Ungrateful Person

Author:Mandy Patinkin

“I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm eager to see what the day will bring, how I will feed that passion.”

Writing Passion Stuff Blessed Passionate

Author:John Densmore

“I've been very blessed to work in some films that I'm very proud of.”

Film Proud Blessed

Author:Laz Alonso

“I've been very blessed to work in some films that I'm very proud of. When you're going to commit yourself to a series, to a certain degree, you're almost saying, "Okay, some of these opportunities, I'm just not going to be available for," so it has to be something that you really, really are passionate about.”

Film Opportunity Proud Okay Blessed Passionate Commit

Author:Laz Alonso

“I've been very blessed, I think, or what do you call it... mmm... lucky to get at this stage what I have. It's not like I've come from acting school and done work at an academy or something. I feel I've been given a very huge chance and opportunity.”

Thinking Feels Done School Opportunity Given Chance Acting Stage Huge Lucky Blessed Academy

Author:Katrina Kaif

“I've been very blessed. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted. When you grow up in a household like that, you learn to believe in yourself.”

Believe Wanted Father Grows Parent Growing Up Blessed Believe In Yourself Household Believe In You

Author:Ricky Schroder

“I've been very careful about what I say yes to and what I say no to. And I think seriously always about... this may be a good idea right now or it may be a lot of money right now, but will it be good for me five years from now? Will it be fun? Will it make me hate myself? I think about all of those things.”

Thinking Years May Ideas Hate Fun Five Right Now Careful Be Good Five Years Good Ideas Lots Of Money Hate Myself

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“I've been very careful. I've gone through pretty much everything. I'm very careful not to let go of the prized possessions, or too much of it that I'll regret in the future.”

Regret Letting Go Careful Possession

Author:Gillian Anderson

“I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.”

Sports Clear Crime Commit

Author:O. J. Simpson

“I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.”

Firsts Age Young Lines Eating Aging Faster Birthday Bowls Young Age Pasta 50th Birthday

Author:Maria Sharapova

“I've been very fortunate - You only can do what you're offered, you know?”

Knows Can Do Fortunate

Author:Jon Voight

“I've been very fortunate and I am grateful.”

Grateful Fortunate I Am Grateful

Author:Scott Baio

“I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience.”

Successful Player Managers Fortunate Privileged Knowledge And Experience

Author:John Toshack

“I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.”

Proud Involved Projects Fortunate Score Composer

Author:Alan Menken

“I've been very fortunate at having good titles but I just think in terms of titles. I'm doing a workshop now where people write books and they come and I name their books for them. I'm good with titles.”

People Thinking Writing Book Names Term Titles Fortunate Workshops

Author:Larry Winget

“I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that all teachers were not alike.”

Realizing Teacher Fortunate Exceptional Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.”

Art Careers Expected Fortunate

Author:Marcel Dzama

“I've been very fortunate in my career to work across a lot of different mediums. I've hosted, I've narrated, I've acted in television, miniseries, film - all of which are very, very different in the way they tell stories.”

Way Different Stories Film Careers Television Mediums Fortunate

Author:Grant Bowler

“I've been very fortunate in my career.”

Careers Fortunate

Author:Ashley Johnson

“I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.”

Careers Fortunate Collaborators

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

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