When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know.
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
For decades, I have cringed whenever someone called me 'illegal,' as if I'm an insect on someone's back. I found out I didn't have the right papers - that I was here illegally - when I tried to get a driver's permit at age 16. But I am not 'illegal.' No person is.
You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.
In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
When I was growing up, I played a lot of ten- and 12-over games, and I would bat in the middle order. I got only ten-odd balls to face, and I tried to score as much as I could. I applied the same approach in domestic and international cricket, and people were appreciating my strike rate being more than 80 or 90 in Test cricket.
I tried to make up for being 5 ft. 3 in. by affecting a strut and adopting the voice of a much bigger man... dating tall, beautiful women... But nothing I could do, after Ava had left me, would add a single inch to my height.
If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.
As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
I mean, every single time I was there with Mahesh, I just tried to learn something of his game, because he's, you know, one of the best doubles players that's been around ever.
From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.
My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby. We tried a bunch of things - so we had a surrogate.
I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.
The Egyptian FA have tried to persuade me to play for them, but all I'm dreaming about is the blue jersey.
I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.
The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day.
Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.
I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?
This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is facing, what some would call a mess.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.
I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23.
When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.
I've tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.
I never made any public statements. At least, I tried never to make any public statements.
I've tried to keep myself out of bad situations, and if that means I'm a Goody Two-shoes, so be it.
I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.
If you haven't had a few dents in your resume, you haven't tried.
We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.
I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.
If you're a believer, God is not a thought-experiment requiring a special sub-creation to be tried out in. He's an actual, er, actuality already, embedded in a necessary and true story about guilt, hope, and liberty. I don't want C. S. Lewis doing his resourceful best to render Him as a fabulous special effect.
I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
