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“For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.”

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Author:Alana Stewart

“You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.”

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Author:Octavia Spencer

“I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge because of the way people carried themselves. There are so many incredible stories within those centuries - just the language and the way they carried themselves and what they were going through.”

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Author:Amy Smart

“I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.”

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Author:Amy Smart

“Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.”

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Author:Brittany Snow

“Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.”

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Author:David Sylvian

“I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.”

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Author:Devon Sawa

“The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.”

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Author:George Stigler

“The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.”

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Author:Larry Sabato

“I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.”

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Author:Mark Skousen

“Naturally, along the way, there are beings and forces that will challenge you. They want to try and get some of your power, take it away from you, all this nonsense, and of course, you just defeat them.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre or niche writers, but every single one of us.”

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Author:Russell T Davies

“With the frenzied pace in our own country, with the degenerating school system, with a crime rate that rises 30% a year, and with politicians that seem more interested in posturing than in governing, it has become more difficult, or should I say challenging, to achieve that inner symbiosis with life.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We all come to this planet as spiritual beings destined to experience a variety of challenges and situation in order to grow and evolve spiritually.”

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Author:James Van Praagh

“While I was in London it was completely upside-down. I got a whole new life and it was a challenge to keep in touch with my life in Ireland, but it was great fun. Now though, I've been back home since November and gradually all connections with my HP life have been fading.”

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Author:Evanna Lynch

“The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.”

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Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“In 'Law & Order,' your main job is to stay out of the way of the plot. On another show you'd receive your script and see stuff that seems challenging and feel excited that the writers thought highly enough of you to write it for you.”

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Author:Jeremy Sisto

“I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.”

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Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I look forward to the challenges.”

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Author:Maria Sharapova

“Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.”

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Author:Nicholas Stern

“I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.”

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Author:Alan Thicke

“It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.”

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Author:David Tang

“In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.”

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Author:John Thorn

“The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.”

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Author:Laini Taylor

“Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.”

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Author:James Franco

“It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia.”

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Author:Alisher Usmanov

“I would have to say the most challenging thing about directing is the sheer stamina because... as a director, you're always doing something. Someone always needs to talk to you. There are always decisions to be made and every day for as long as the movie goes on. So it's a marathon... You don't have to look nice, but it's all day every day.”

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Author:Michael Urie

“As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.”

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Author:Kate Voegele

“I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.”

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Author:Kate Voegele

“I'm excited by challenging myself physically and mentally every day.”

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Author:Emily VanCamp

“Crises are challenges, not calamities.”

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Author:Guy Verhofstadt

“It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.”

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Author:Charlie Watts

“Being a father is an everyday challenge. It goes on and on.”

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Author:Dwyane Wade

“I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.”

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Author:Jack White

“I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.”

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Author:Jack White

“The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.”

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Author:James T. Walsh

“Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.”

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Author:Jeffrey Wright

“I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.”

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Author:Laura Wilkinson

“That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.”

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Author:Margaret Whiting

“That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.”

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Author:Mary Wesley

“I ran the L.A. marathon and really loved the experience. Communal and wild and a gigantic challenge. Finishing that marathon means I can do more than I think. I think.”

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Author:Michael Weatherly

“As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.”

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Author:Mike White

“One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.”

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Author:Nik Wallenda

“I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.”

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Author:Sanford I. Weill

“Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone through a period of challenging myself with a complicated idea to currently challenging myself with the idea of simplicity.”

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Author:Tim Walker

“I really love a challenge, but in 'Downton' it was really hard going because there's no CGI - what you see is what you get. These were real explosions right in front of our faces, and you just had to make sure that you cleared out of the way.”

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Author:Thomas Howes

“I like challenging myself. I like the challenge of rapping to fast beats, rapping to beats that are super slow, whatever. I like the challenges, so I'm not afraid to take on any piece of music and create a song to it if it feels right to me.”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“I believe that as people will look at me, they'll see a person who has dealt with a number of very difficult and challenging circumstances and that I have been able to successfully navigate through those and create greater strength and greater opportunity. I believe that people recognize that I'm someone who has confidence in America's cause.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.”

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

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