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“Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.”

People Different Sometimes Difficult Views Steps Achieve Cost Block Reduction

Author:Eckhard Pfeiffer

“If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.”

Ifs Feels May Made Country Facts Political Difficult Struggle Gone Huge Normal Dictatorship Greece Barbarism Political Life Upheaval Polarization

Author:George Papandreou

“I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.”

Thinking Years Today Difficult Subjects Election Factors Discourse Controversial Public Discourse Election Years

Author:John Poindexter

“I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered.”

Thinking Country Moments Government Difficult Support Office Commitment Obvious Saved Our Country Euro Membership Difficult Moments

Author:Lucas Papademos

“I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.”

People Way Difficult Situation Talent Intelligent Guitar My Way Difficult Situations

Author:Madeleine Peyroux

“It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.”

Long Shows Difficult Cameras Schedules

Author:Martha Plimpton

“I'm not prejudiced about what type of movies I'm in, what form they take or whether they're studio or independent. I just want to make films that are going to be good. The main reason is not to make money, although at some points it's really difficult when you're broke.”

Want Reason Film Form Difficult Type Independent Studios Be Good Broke Making Money

Author:Michael Pitt

“Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.”

People Needs Different Hard Light Film Actors Difficult Support Position Color Hollywood Green Producers African American Filmmaker Rely Etc Cohesion American Film Green Lights

Author:Paula Patton

“The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.”

Needs Trying Enough Character Difficult Novel Crime Elements Red Patterns Theme Multitudes Linked Strands Unruly Herring Crime Novels Red Herrings

Author:Ian Rankin

“It's always difficult, especially the U.S. Open, the last of the Grand Slams. It's always tough because you know, the season is very long. I really played a lot this year. Sometimes it's really hard to stay focused all the time because you're really tired after the whole season.”

Knows Years Long Sometimes Hard Whole Lasts Difficult Tough Seasons Tired Focused Stay Focused Slam

Author:Agnieszka Radwanska

“The Americans provide still more advanced military assets and equipment; the Europeans are lagging behind. And eventually it will be difficult to co-operate even if you had the political will to co-operate because of the technological gap.”

Ifs Stills Political Difficult Behinds Military Gaps Assets Technological Equipment Political Will

Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.”

Knows Difficult Know How Taught Grieving

Author:Charlotte Rampling

“Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.”

Actors Difficult Careers Successful New York Television Moved Actresses Screens Cards Miami Obtaining Guilds Successful Career Television Commercials

Author:Donna Rice Hughes

“Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.”

Ifs Young Difficult Challenges Powerful Identity Ethics Staying Commandments Rail Chaste Difficult Challenges Young Life

Book:Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America

Source: Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America

“When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.”

Bigs America Culture Difficult Religious Behinds Rights Movement College Serious Treated Civil Rights Shock Irrelevant 1960s Difficult Times Upbringing Culture Shock

Book:Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America

Source: Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America

“I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.”

Actors Difficult Impossible Trade Focused Singers Music Business Movie Business

Author:Jeremy Renner

“Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.”

Country Faces Law Difficult Tasks International Vulnerable Illegal Amendments Other Countries Convincing Retaliation Difficult Tasks Convincing Others

Author:Jim Ramstad

“It's been difficult to find roles that are independent, strong, and self-assured; I always say I can't play the princess. I'm not a pretty princess! I'm a tomboy.”

I Can Self Play Strong Difficult Roles Independent Princess Assured

Author:Leven Rambin

“Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.”

Difficult Risk Findings Debt Finance Sovereign Spain Premium

Author:Mariano Rajoy

“It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.”

Today Film Difficult Break Easier Directors Independent Studios Finance Substance Cables Reluctant Independent Film Motion Pictures

Author:Mark Rydell

“Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.”

Ifs Difficult Views Identity Comfortable Concepts Shakes Something New Difficult Times

Author:Mercedes Ruehl

“Enrollment in Colorado is expected to expand about 25 percent in seven years. It's very difficult to find those additional funds. Therefore, I think you're probably going to have increased pressure on tuition.”

Thinking Years Difficult Percent Pressure Seven Expected Fund Seven Years Colorado Tuition Enrollment

Author:Roy Romer

“One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.”

Thinking Years Values Courses Difficult Quality Struggle Impossible Judging Educational

Author:Roy Romer

“And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.”

Lasts Turns Difficult Lines Rap Last Words

Author:Slick Rick

“You have to be luxurious nude. It's difficult to move in the nude in front of a mirror. It's much easier to move when you're dressed. But if you can walk around in the nude easily in front of your man, if you can be luxurious in the nude, then you've really got it.”

Ifs Men Moving Difficult Walks Fronts Easier Mirrors Luxurious

Author:Sonia Rykiel

“Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.”

Jobs Difficult Pieces Happened Politician Legislation Catchy Slapping Acronyms Jumpstart

Author:Steven Rattner

“Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me...”

Long Has Beens Ends Reason Mother Parent Difficult Interest Successful Nice Happened Lucky Prove Long Time The End Of The Day Mum Long Time Ago Prove Myself Your Mum

Author:Stuart Rose

“From a personal standpoint, playing someone judged negatively by her friends is not difficult.”

Difficult Judged Standpoint Playing Someone

Author:Darby Stanchfield

“It’s always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.”

Stories Political Difficult Interesting Climate

Author:Jim Sturgess

“I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.”

Ifs Thinking Moments Difficult Steps Needed

Author:John Slattery

“It's difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you're in.”

Knows Difficult

Author:Alexander Skarsgard

“If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.”

Ifs Has Beens Names Difficult Impossible Journalist

Author:Asne Seierstad

“I permed my hair 12 years ago, because I always wanted a perm, but my mother would never let me have one! I got a lot of stick, but I didn't care - I loved the curls. The growing out was the difficult part!”

Years Care Wanted Mother Difficult Growing Hair Years Ago Let Me Sticks Curls Perms

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.”

People Easy Difficult Community Difficult Times Lead In

Author:Donna Shalala

“I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.”

People Feels Trying Believe Littles Different Wanted Bits Difficult Doors Honest Findings Little Bit Understood Labels Clown Knocking

Author:Emeli Sande

“Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.”

Trying Kind Made Matter Film Difficult No Matter What Budgets Nineteen

Author:Eriq La Salle

“Any way you slice it, increasing the minimum wage in Michigan... is likely to make it more difficult for the working poor to find jobs. ...those who most need the work will have a harder time finding it.”

Way Needs Jobs Difficult Poor Findings Harder Minimum Minimum Wage Michigan Living Wage

Author:Paul Kersey

“There are powers and forces that will seek to block you, to make your life more difficult. But if you are up to the study, then you continue to progress without getting discouraged.”

Ifs Force Difficult Study Progress Block Discouraged

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.”

People Writing Wells Enough Facts Faces Difficult Talking Ambition Block Mysterious Prescriptions Hysteria Writer's Block Writing Well

Author:Thomas Mallon

“There is wisdom in not letting anyone really know who you are or what you are like. If you define yourself, people hold you in their mind a certain way making it difficult to change.”

People Ifs Knows Way Mind Wisdom Certain Difficult Buddhism Who You Are Define Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you can be agreeable to each and every person or situation with which you come into contact - no matter how "difficult" it is or how much you think you are in the "right" - then you are demonstrating control.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Matter Difficult Situation Buddhism Balance Contact Demonstrating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Should Years Country Seems School Humanity Difficult Challenges Achieve Crime Buddhism Politician Rate Pace Should I Governing School System Crime Rates Symbiosis

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The world is entering another dark age. After 1985, the Maya will be so thick that it will be difficult to advance spiritually without a strong foundation.”

World Age Humanity Strong Difficult Dark Buddhism Foundation Thick Entering Dark Ages Strong Foundation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.”

Happiness Difficult Can Do Taught Buddhism Best Things Nun

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?”

Knows Want House Difficult Studios Gears

Author:Jeff Lynne

“To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.”

People Hard Process Difficult Impossible Vote Democratic Casts Democratic Process

Author:John Lewis

“The schedule of doing a live TV show every week is very difficult.”

Shows Difficult Week Tvs Tv Shows Schedules Live Tv

Author:Julia Louis-Dreyfus

“A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.”

Should Firsts Difficult Party Pieces Directors Bases Appearance Impression Chosen Conductor Containing First Date

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.”

Years Moments Felt Difficult Careers Comfortable Seven Grass Seven Years Difficult Times Difficult Moments

Author:Marat Safin

“For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.”

People Way Problem Reality Seems Dies Culture Process Difficult Deals Shots Sexy Grieving Bizarre Really Sad

Author:Michael Sheen

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