“I got my shot at the movies. I love doing standup live. I didn't know what I wanted to do. I wanted to try movies, so I gave it a shot. I had two shots and I didn't really do it. That wasn't really happening for me. On the second movie I got to meet the girl that would be my wife. So I got to hang out with her and get engaged, and get the whole wedding thing. It was really great.” KnowsTryingTwoWholeWould BeWantedGirlWifeHappeningsShotsMy WifeEngagedHanging OutReally Great Author:Jimmy Fallon
“I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.” NeedsWritingTryingYearsI CanSongGirlUnwritten Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but it is too late to remedy it. The country must take me as it found me. Wasn't it your mother who had a servant girl who said it was no use for her to try to hurry, that she was a "Sunday chil" and no "Sunday chil" could hurry? I don't think I am a Sunday child, but I ought to have been; then I would have had an excuse for always being late.” ThinkingKnowsTryingChildrenHas BeensSaidCountryUseFunnyMotherGirlFoundOughtLateFaultsExcuseServantToo LateSundayTake MeRemedy Author:William Howard Taft
“Girls face two major sexual issues in America in the 1990s: One is an old issue of coming to terms with their own sexuality, defining a sexual self, making sexual choices and learning to enjoy sex. The other issue concerns the dangers girls face of being sexually assaulted. By late adolescence, most girls today either have been traumatized or know girls who have. They are fearful of males even as they are trying to develop intimate relations with them.” KnowsTryingHas BeensTwoSelfTodayAmericaFacesChoicesGirlSexEnjoyTermIssuesDangerLateMajorsConcernRelationMalesSexualityIntimateFearfulAdolescenceDefiningSexually Author:Mary Pipher
“Girls didn't really take much interest in me until I was about 14. But I knew how to talk to them very quickly. What I figured out - that my friends didn't - was you have to talk to women like you're not constantly trying to have sex with them. That seemed to work.” TryingGirlSexInterestLike YouMy Friends Author:James McAvoy
“An actress reading a part for the first time tries many ways to say the same line before she settles into the one she believes suits the character and situation best. There's an aspect of the rehearsing actress about the girl on the verge of her teens. Playfully, she is starting to try out ways to be a grown-up person.” WayTryingFirstsBelievePersonsCharacterGirlReadingLinesSituationFirst TimeAspectStartingActressesSuitsSettlingTeensVergeRehearsing Book:Daughters: from infancy to independence Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence
“I'm not going on a diet, I'm not trying to lose weight, because your insecurities are what make you different and if everyone looked the same, it'd be boring.” IfsKnowsWayTryingDifferentSchoolGirlLosesNiceMy FamilyWeightBoringHatedDietsInsecurityCommentBulliedLose Weight Author:Jesy Nelson
“Have you noticed how the Republicans and Democrats try to copy each other at their conventions. Like at the Democratic convention John Kerry's daughter told a story about how he once gave CPR to her hamster. At the Republican convention the Bush girls are going to tell a story about how when their hamster was bad, their dad built them a little electric chair.” TryingLittlesStoriesGirlDadRepublicanDaughterBuiltDemocraticDemocratChairsCopiesConventionsElectricJohn KerryHamstersElectric ChairCpr Author:Jay Leno
“I'm not a grunter, I'm relatively quiet. There's a little bit of breathing out. Some people get really loud! There's a little bit of psyching up sometimes, if you're going for a really heavy weight you might make a little noise, but when lifting, I try and keep it quite quiet - I'm not a fan of male noise in that way to be totally honest. I think when girls do it it's not as bad, but when guys do it it's just like, 'Come on mate, hold it in!'.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayTryingLittlesSometimesMightGuyGirlBitsFansHonestQuietLittle BitWeightMalesHeavyNoiseBreathingLoudMatesGet RealLiftingHeavy Weights Author:Greg Rutherford
“I say I'm a rebel. I'm continually fighting against [sexism]. I don't take parts because they're for the sexy girl. I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.” GivingTryingCharacterGirlFightingSexySexismRebelSexy Girl Author:Amber Heard
“My actual beauty routine is pretty simple, I try and have a facial once in a while. I'm not a huge products girl. I have so much going on with work and kids, I just use moisturiser basically.” TryingUseKidsGirlSimpleProductsHugeRoutineFacial Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“It's very tough to give advice because it's tough out there for everybody but for a girl it's even tougher, because I don't think the glass ceiling has changed at all in the past 30 years. Otherwise the radio would be covered with girl bands, or girls in bands, so I don't think much has changed on that level. But I think that bands can still have a lot of success trying to go another route.” ThinkingGivingTryingYearsStillsWould BePastGirlLevelsAdviceChangedBandToughGlassesRadioCoveredRoutesCeilingsGlass Ceiling Author:Joan Jett
“My husband and I make physical activity a priority in our lives, and our daughters love being active as well. And while we each have sports and activities we enjoy, we try to go for hikes or bike rides together whenever we get the chance. We've found that the best way to help our girls be active is to find activities they truly enjoy.” WayTryingWellsHelpingTogetherGirlFoundSportsEnjoyChanceLove IsOur LivesActivityHusbandDaughterActivePrioritiesBest WayMy HusbandBikeOur DaughterPhysical Activity Author:Michelle Obama
“Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality - it's not just about my ego and trying to meet girls.” TryingYearsSongGirlQualityEgoMessagesPensSimplify Author:Jason Mraz
“I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.” PeopleTryingI CanGirlImagineHonestDinnerBeing HonestImpressImpress A Girl Author:Marco Pierre White
“I lost my virginity under a bridge. I was having sex with this poor girl and I was trying my best, but I was like Scotland at a World Cup - just pleased to be there.” WorldTryingHumorFunnyGirlLostSexPoorCupsBridgesScotlandVirginityWorld CupHaving Sex Author:Russell Howard
“I think what I am always trying to do is make clothes for every girl to wear, to make things that you are going to accessorize from day to night. I am really trying to focus on casualwear - making your basic sweatpants cool, trendy, and funky.” ThinkingTryingNightGirlFocusClothesAlways TryingEvery GirlTrendyFunkySweatpants Author:Whitney Port
“I like girls that are down to earth, intelligent, and don't try to be anything that they're not. One thing that I fall for all the time is girls with blue eyes and brown hair. There's something about that combination that I find really sexy. It's all in the eyes...and the personality, but that's obvious.” TryingEyeEarthFallGirlOne ThingHairPersonalityIntelligentBlueObviousSexyCombinationBrownBlue EyesDown To EarthBrown Hair Author:Devon Bostick
“The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be - 82kg - and I try to stick to it.” KnowsWantTryingCareGirlMorningMembersWeightSticksEvery MorningI Care Author:Tony Parsons
“The community in Utah was very religious. I was a typical teenage girl trying to find my sexuality. Unfortunately, girls do use their sexuality to find attention. I also understand why parents want to protect their kids.” WantTryingUseKidsGirlParentCommunityReligiousAttentionProtectSexualityTypicalTeenageTeenage GirlUtah Author:Julianne Hough