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“It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.”

“For me, being able to be vulnerable is difficult, but it's just something that I feel comfortable doing. I need to fully understand why, the thought-process behind the character and I have to believe it. That comes from a lot of preparation.”

Needs Feels Believe Character Able Process Difficult Behinds Comfortable Vulnerable Preparation Thought Process

Author:Logan Lerman

“People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.”

People Thinking Want Writing Believe Difficult Fiction Imagine Easier Memoir Novelists Imaginary Imagine That Imaginary Life

Author:Mark Leyner

“Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.”

Mind Humans Children Games Difficult Human Beings Fantasy Particular Species Revenge Terrorist Checks Video Exacting Revenge Fabricate

Author:Alan Dean Foster

“I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.”

Thinking Kind Persons Would Be Difficult Driven Annoying

Author:Aaron Levie

“If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.”

Ifs Men Asks Difficult Genius

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.”

Giving Today Difficult Can Do Lines Simple Steps Pure Perfection Complicated Dancer

Author:Natalia Makarova

“A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.”

People Thinking Want Matter Stuff Difficult Comedy

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility.”

Country Government Running Political Courses Difficult Party Tasks India Congress Political Parties Flexibility Adjustment Coalitions Difficult Tasks

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.”

People Believe Seems Difficult Party Like You Bed Bidding

Author:Rachel Maddow

“It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.”

Difficult Imagine Planets Evolution Aliens

Author:Simon Conway Morris

“Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.”

Eye America Life Is Turns Difficult Blind Silent Customers Corporate Passive Spirals Corporate America Blind Eyes Downward Spiral

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.”

Difficult My Own Watches Audience Critical

Author:Tobey Maguire

“I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.”

Wells Enough Speak Language Wish Difficult Couple Spokes Difficult Things

Author:Jodie Foster

“Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.”

Difficult

Author:Oscar Nunez

“For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really counts.”

Matter Difficult Sound Impressive

Author:Dave Navarro

“Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.”

Difficult Risk Difficult Times Albania

Author:Fatos Nano

“If you want to go on the floor, go in disguise because otherwise you won't be able to. I would just put on a full Darth Vader costume and walk through Comic-Con so I can actually check it out and enjoy it as opposed to being approached by everyone, which is lovely, but it gets very difficult to enjoy because there's so many people there.”

People Ifs Want I Can Able Enjoy Difficult Walks Goes On Lovely Checks Comic Disguise Costumes Comic Con Vader

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.”

Has Beens Bigs Stars Difficult Saws Feet Painting Band Jazz Size Currents Portraits 80s Life Size

Author:LeRoy Neiman

“I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.”

Important Problem Felt Difficult Effort Essentials Pursuit Justify Good Science

Author:Paul Nurse

“It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.”

Knows Lasts Three Easy Difficult Taxes Paid Bills Congress Accomplish Alternatives Minimum Simplification

Author:Richard Neal

“The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.”

People Moving Difficult Issues Source Mouths Sensitive Fundamentalism

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.”

Believe Law Difficult Als Gore Oblivious

Author:Barbara Olson

“Sophomore records are historically really difficult.”

Difficult Records Sophomore

Author:Karen O

“Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.”

Humans Government Given Difficult Support Pieces Imagine Particular Dignity Bills Human Life Ministers Brown Prime Legislation Prime Minister Sanctity

Author:Keith O'Brien

“I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.”

Difficult Challenges Management Reputation

Author:Keith Olbermann

“I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.”

People Age Difficult Gauges

Author:Richard O'Brien

“It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.”

Night Next Difficult Goes On

Author:Richard O'Brien

“My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.”

Film Difficult Interest Issues Circumstances Caught Population Motivated Marginalized Difficult Circumstances Highlighting

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.”

People Want Kind Country Difficult Issues

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.”

Long Film Difficult Gone Too Much Boards Canada Topics Funding Approved Paperwork

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.”

Order Difficult Water Study Effects Pure Sugar Magnitude Thorough Inversions Pure Water Sugar Cane

Author:Wilhelm Ostwald

“I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.”

Way Has Beens Made Process Enjoy Difficult Albums Exhausting Autonomous

Author:Grant-Lee Phillips

“I understand that it's incredibly difficult to watch what's happening on the news every day and not become inured to it. I've fallen victim to that myself, wanting to look away.”

Looks Difficult Watches News Happenings Victim Fallen

Author:Kevin Powers

“It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.”

Art Difficult Fool Habit Martial Arts Selflessness

Book:Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

“I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.”

Art Film Difficult Being The Best Martial Arts

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.”

God Difficult Notion Merciful Reconcile Merciful God

Author:David Attenborough

“I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time.”

I Can Politics Difficult Workers Difficult Times

Author:Dan Quayle

“The great majority of the Senate of the United States...somewhere around 80 percent...are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated time and again, and this has made it difficult.”

Want Has Beens Made States Difficult United United States Support Percent Majority Jew Israel Made It Senate

Author:J. William Fulbright

“On my arrival in U.S.S.R. in 1934, I remember that I was struck by the enormous proportion of Jewish functionaries everywhere. In the Press, and diplomatic circles, it was difficult to find non-Jews...In France many believe, even amongst the Communists, that, thanks to the present anti-Jewish purge...Russia is no longer Israel's chosen land...Those who think that are making a mistake.”

Thinking Believe Remember Difficult Mistake Land Presses Jew Israel Circles Russia Enormous Chosen Thanks France Proportion Making Mistakes Communist Arrivals Diplomatic

Author:Denis Fahey

“I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want.”

Knows Want Hard Games Difficult My Own Situation Player Team Hard Work Personality Customers Analysis Scrum

Author:Alan Lewis

“Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.”

Actors Found Difficult Situation Supposed To Be

Author:Barry Levinson

“Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.”

Knows Humans Grows Difficult Frailty Human Frailties

Author:Blanche Lincoln

“Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.”

Thinking Hard Difficult Couple Stronger Working It Units Makes You Stronger

Author:Brian Littrell

“In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.”

Men Years War Father Difficult Poor Soldier Makers Furniture Payment

Author:Trevor Nunn

“A lot of the listeners don't realize that the Daytona 24 Hours is the most difficult race in the world. It's 24 hours, a lot of darkness because it's held at the end of January, so you're talking about 13-14 hours of darkness.”

World Ends Difficult Realizing Hours Race Talking Darkness Listeners January Daytona

Author:Scott Pruett

“Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.”

Difficult Black White Periods Black And White Recreation

Author:Alan Parker

“Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.”

Ifs Hard Film Actors Difficult Crew

Author:Alan Parker

“Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.”

Difficult Audience

Author:Barry Pepper

“The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council.”

Stills Faces Next Process Difficult President Challenges Progress Iraq Ministers Prime Fragile Speakers Representatives Evident Prime Minister Council

Author:David Petraeus

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