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“There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.”

Author:Diego Luna

“I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do.”

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Author:Pedro Martinez

“I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to.”

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Author:Connie Nielsen

“As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.”

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Author:David Nail

“I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.”

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Author:David Ortiz

“You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.”

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Author:David Ortiz

“All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.”

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Author:Brandon Lee

“It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can't. A 'Highlander' movie is basically my thing. What I'm attempting to do is develop my ability as an actor and try to be the best I can be in the fantasy/action genre.”

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Author:Christopher Lambert

“Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and "must have-once-been-beautiful" begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.”

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Author:Paulina Porizkova

“I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.”

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Author:Eddie Redmayne

“I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.”

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Author:Gabrielle Reece

“Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.”

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Author:Shawn Ryan

“You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a great writer!”

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Author:Bubba Sparxxx

“I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.”

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Author:Hal Sparks

“So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.”

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Author:Jane Siberry

“There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.”

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Author:Zoe Saldana

“I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.”

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Author:Rachael Taylor

“As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.”

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Author:Tate Taylor

“So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.”

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Author:Carrie Underwood

“I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.”

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Author:Barry Watson

“I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.”

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Author:Chris Ware

“I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together.”

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Author:Irvine Welsh

“I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.”

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Author:Shailene Woodley

“I do like moving my legs a lot, like maybe moon walk-y things. I don't have like one move, because I try as much as I can. But I just love imitating impossible things that dancers do.”

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Author:Lucas Till

“So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.”

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Author:Monica Lewinsky

“I've always been honest with all my kids. So I - if they did well, they did well. And if they didn't, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can't make you go out there and work out hard.”

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Author:Ryan Lochte

“If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.”

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Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“I never know why shows succeed or don't succeed, which is why I look at it as, 'I'll do the best work that I can', and if the fans and people respond then I'm always really flattered and honored, and if they don't then I'll try and do something next time that they like better. But I have no idea what makes a hit show, I really don't.”

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Author:Poppy Montgomery

“I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.”

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Author:St. Vincent

“I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.”

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Author:Steve Vai

“I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.”

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Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.”

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Author:Markus Zusak

“I mean, Robert Pattinson. No, I’m kidding, I shouldn’t say that. He’s actually really nice. My neighbour works with him and said he was a great guy. I don’t know to be honest, I don’t really model myself after anybody. You’re always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can’t look at anybody and think ‘I want to be Damian Lewis’ – I’d be setting myself up for failure.”

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Author:Diego Klattenhoff

“I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.”

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Author:Janet Reno

“I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.”

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Author:Elliott Yamin

“I come to spring training and just try to do my job, try to do the best I can. That's all any player can do.”

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Author:Danny Bautista

“As a producer, I try to bring as many nice people as I can to insure that there's no screaming, there's no shouting, there's no bullying. The more of those kind of people that you can bring together, the better the experience everyone has on set.”

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Author:Lorenzo di Bonaventura

“I'm just trying to age as ungracefully as I can in front of the nation.”

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Author:Mike O'Malley

“I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.”

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Author:Lucian Freud

“All I need to do is try and do the best that I can do.”

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Author:Selena

“I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.”

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Author:Jackie Mason

“I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy.”

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Author:Charles Bass

“I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.”

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Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.”

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Author:Sondre Lerche

“It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.”

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Author:Victoria Legrand

“I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.”

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Author:Nadine Labaki

“If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.”

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Author:Yul Vazquez

“I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.”

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Author:Victoria Clark

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