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“After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.”

Littles Play Difficult Rocks Absurd Bus Rock N Roll Showers

Author:Nancy Sinatra

“It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.”

Men Writing Firsts Young Girl Found Sex Difficult Events Scene Horse Satisfied Get Up Attractive Young Man Playwright

Author:Peter Shaffer

“I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you've got more than one assistant.”

Ifs Knows Writing Stories Difficult Doctors Doctor Who Assistants

Author:Sarah Sutton

“It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.”

Feels Hands Difficult Hollywood Committees

Author:Zack Snyder

“You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'”

Knows Art Real Difficult Drawing Works Of Art Difficult Things

Author:Zack Snyder

“It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.”

People Feels Difficult Streets

Author:Audrey Tautou

“It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.”

People Knows Easy Difficult

Author:Daley Thompson

“It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.”

Want Real Hard Actors Difficult Directors Ten Gears Collaborators

Author:Jeanne Tripplehorn

“When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see.”

Knows Want Difficult Decision Couple Do You Know Fragile

Author:Jim Thome

“But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.”

Thinking Difficult Expectations High Expectations Expectations Of Yourself

Author:Uma Thurman

“I must tell you, to get started today must be very difficult 'cause whatever it takes today is very tough. They have to invest a million dollars in a video just to see if you have a hit record.”

Ifs Today Causes Difficult Millions Records Tough Dollars Video Million Dollars Whatever It Takes

Author:Bobby Vinton

“The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.”

Problem Social Difficult Situation Economic Military Isolated Social Problems

Author:Eamon de Valera

“We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.”

Want Difficult Media Difficult Things Navigate

Author:Emily VanCamp

“All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.”

World Choices Individual Difficult Progress Traditional

Author:Gore Verbinski

“It's very strange to go from being completely secluded and doing your own work for yourself, to having an audience - and having an audience that's aware of what you do and expects you to do things that they like. It can make things difficult.”

Difficult Audience Strange Secluded

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.”

Children Ends Parent Difficult Issues Strange Aging Beginning Of Life

Author:Amy Waldman

“When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.”

Writing Firsts Children Different Would Be Young Used Found Difficult Four Baby Months Accomplish Accomplish Nothing

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.”

Difficult Evidence Burned Serials Arson Arsonists

Author:Joseph Wambaugh

“Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.”

Thinking Difficult Understanding Circumstances Profound Difficult Circumstances

Author:Mo Yan

“Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.”

Made Difficult Class Democrat Wave Retro

Author:Thomas Frank

“Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.”

Difficult Return Skills Blame Opposition Governing Evasion

Author:Thomas Frank

“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.”

People Believe Looks Persons Has Beens Able America Opportunity I Believe Causes Difficult Challenges Numbers Greater Circumstances Look At Me Have Confidence Navigate

Author:Mitt Romney

“Presidents don't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that's before you at that moment.”

Moments Difficult President Decision Information Benefits That Moment Hindsight Difficult Decisions

Author:Marco Rubio

“If you're honest with yourself, that's the first step in maturing and becoming a better person. If you suppress your shortcomings and fears, they will follow you until the day you die. It was difficult, but I finally admitted to myself that I made mistakes.”

“Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics. Neumann: In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”

Helping Problem Science Used Difficult Understanding Simple Mathematics Method Seeking Characteristics Physicist Difficult Problems Seeking Help

Author:John von Neumann

“It is truly difficult to make a democracy. Democracy, like arty dream, is not made with spiritual words but with reflection and practice. It is not what I say that says I am a democrat, that I am not racist or machista but what I do. What I say must not be contradicted by what I do. It is what I do that bespeaks my faithfulness or not to what I say.”

Made Dream Spiritual Difficult Practice Democracy Society Reflection Democrat Racist Faithfulness

Author:Paulo Freire

“People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.”

People Needs Wells Life Is Purpose Order Asks Difficult Creativity Economic Type Ambition Tasks Aspiration Labour Insecurity Contracts Portions Immense Exhaustion Economic Systems Repetitive

Author:Tony Benn

“What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command.”

Done Force Difficult Answers Demand Labor Command Organize Labor Union

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“All the billions of people who now inhabit our planet are putting a terrific strain on its aura, making it difficult, even for evolved people to become aware of their past-life knowledge and talents.”

People Inspirational Past Difficult Talent Planets Buddhism Billions Strain Terrific Our Planet Past Life Auras

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Get real. Life is heavy. It's difficult. It's complex...even for the wise.”

Inspirational Real Life Is Difficult Wise Buddhism Complexes Heavy Real Life Get Real

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is not impractical or unrealistic, nor is it difficult to integrate with any lifestyle or age, in that it's timeless, although it occurs in time.”

Age Difficult Meditation Buddhism Lifestyle Timeless Integrating

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.”

“The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.”

Knows Writing Two Lying Difficult Calling Commitment Resistance Oppression Rooted Nobility Refusal

Book:Speech of Acceptance Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Delivered in Stockholm on the Tenth of December, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-seven. [Translated by Justin O'Brien

Source: Speech of Acceptance Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Delivered in Stockholm on the Tenth of December, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-seven. [Translated by Justin O'Brien

“We are now facing a difficult situation in Peru, where there are attempts to cut back the territorial rights of the indigenous peoples, including moves to divide, fragment and privatise our communal organisations. Now more than ever, it is a matter of urgency for us to consolidate our own indigenous alternatives for development.”

Matter Moving Difficult Situation Cutting Rights Development Including Alternatives Divides Fragments Indigenous Urgency Organisation Indigenous People Peru Difficult Situations Territorial

Author:Evaristo Nugkuag

“Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.”

Difficult Challenges Perseverance Dare Charm Providence Appreciated Undertakings

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“My dear friend, to be both powerful and fair has always been difficult for mankind. Power and justice have always been seen like day and night; this being the case, when one of them is there the other disappears.”

Science Night Difficult Justice Powerful Cases Mankind Fairs Difficulty Dear Disappear Day And Night Dear Friend

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.”

Firsts Difficult Breaths Solidarity Difficult Things Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath Deep Life

Book:Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know

Source: Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know

“Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that. But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering your own best ways to travel with that pain will lead you to the joy that you long to have. They are your paths, your ways and while my experience and the experiences of others may inspire you, ultimately it will be the choices you discover and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy in the midst of your challenges.”

Ifs Way Love May Long Pain Joy Certain Choices Difficult Challenges Leadership Path Inspire Best Way Midst Companion Discovering

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“To nourish the soul means to become kinder, more compassionate, wiser, and more loving, often through the making of difficult choices that foster growth rather than safety. The nourishment and growth of the soul is the very reason for human life.”

Humans Mean Soul Reason Choices Difficult Growth Safety Human Life Compassionate Wiser Nourishment Kinder Difficult Choices

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days.”

May Pain Difficult Comfort Blessing Thread Woven Difficult Days

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.”

Has Beens Problem Difficult Economy Plant California Site Power Plants

Author:Kenneth Lay

“Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.”

Way Actors Difficult Walks Roles Emotional Response Affected Robots Innate Emotional Response

Author:Kristanna Loken

“It's still difficult for me to watch my work.”

Stills Difficult Watches

Author:Sheryl Lee

“Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.”

Helping Seems Jobs Difficult Struggle Economy Creating Method Senate Colleagues Creating Jobs

Author:Al Franken

“I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career without even being nominated. So that would definitely be a goal to reach. It's a difficult one, but I'm aiming for it!”

Whole Dream Actors Winning Difficult Goal Careers Ultimate Oscars

Author:Taylor Lautner

“I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.”

Sometimes Difficult Periods Another Time Time Periods Mailing

Author:Chris Messina

“Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.”

Men Difficult Roles Benefits Models Males Role Models Male Role Models

Author:Donald Miller

“Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something about herself and at the same time makes an impact on other people's lives.”

People Way Character Difficult Novel Journey Female Impact Features Undertakings Protagonists Personal Journey

Author:Juliet Marillier

“If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.”

Ifs Men Would Be Difficult Tough Brilliant Businessman Negotiation

Author:Tamara Mellon

“Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.”

World Way Needs Certain Sports Difficult Forget Court Our World Difficult Times Tournaments

Author:Amelie Mauresmo