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People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.

Not to be too detailed, but I've had an ectopic pregnancy, miscarriages and I've had fertility treatments. I've done all the stuff you can possibly do to try get pregnant.

It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it.

I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.

People have no confidence that Washington, both sides of aisle, are coming together to try and do what's right for the economy.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.

Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.

We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.

We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

I try to do things I haven't been able to before.

If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession.

I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.

When it's a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.