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“The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.”

Source: The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living

“I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.”

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Author:Chuck Mangione

“All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.”

Moments Difficult Religious Silence Quiet Tradition Artistic Contemplative Quiet Moments

Author:David Whyte

“Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words.”

Knows Girl Difficult Nice Terrible Nice Girl

Author:Richard Widmark

“For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.”

Song Difficult Guitar Melody Meant To Be Difficult Things Keyboards Percussion Were Not Meant To Be

Author:Dweezil Zappa

“The average credit score of today's FHA borrowers is higher than the average American household with a score. As it becomes more costly and difficult to get a FHA loan, loans from private mortgage lenders will become more attractive and their market share will grow.”

Today Grows Difficult Share Higher Average Credit Attractive Score Household Loan Mortgage Lenders Borrowers Credit Scores

Author:Mark Zandi

“I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.”

Want Writing Book Difficult Doubt Harder Drag Desks

Author:Markus Zusak

“Star quality is one of the most difficult things to describe. It emanates from the person, and he may not even understand it himself. It's a quality that separates the star from the rest of us.”

May Persons Stars Difficult Quality Difficult Things Emanate

Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.”

Writing Trying Difficult Reader Please

Author:Sara Zarr

“Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping, and the writing is marvelous. But it was the gravity of the problem—so movingly told—that grabbed and kept my attention throughout this remarkable work.”

Writing Book Problem Asks Difficult Attention Medicine Passionate Narrative Remarkable Gravity Marvelous Gripping Difficult Questions

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“People need a sense of purpose. Gross margins are not the stuff of which dreams are made. And even without going so far as to talk of dreams, you cannot inspire people to take action, create or motivate without instilling a sense of purpose, especially when times are difficult.”

People Dream Action Purpose Difficult Inspire Gross

Author:Jean Pascal

“We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots.”

Needs Self Bits Difficult Spots Delusion Self Delusion

Author:John Ralston Saul

“I learned a valuable lesson doing 'Mr. Sunshine,' which is that I didn't want to be in charge because it's too much. Being in charge and acting in every scene was just too difficult. It's like eating dinner in a moving golf cart every night.”

Want Moving Night Difficult Acting Too Much Lessons Scene Eating Golf Valuable Dinner Sunshine Every Night Carts Valuable Lessons Eating Dinner Golf Carts

Author:Matthew Perry

“I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.”

People Thinking Knows Writing Difficult Millions Listening Albums Breakup Get Over

Author:Adele

“My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.”

Thinking Firsts Shows Bigs Difficult Opening Frank Gigs Zappa

Author:Tom Waits

“I mean, if you've ever been a governor of a state, you understand the vast potential of broadband technology, you understand how hard it is to make sure that physics, for example, is taught in every classroom in the state. It's difficult to do. It's, like, cost-prohibitive.”

Ifs Mean Hard States Difficult Technology Example Taught Cost Physics Classroom Governors Broadband

Author:George W. Bush

“To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.”

Problem Difficult Keys Ultimate Novelists Recognizing Knots Omen Fluidity Good Omens Difficult Problems

Author:Zadie Smith

“Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and only if every one of us is ready to individually obey the necessities of readjustment shall we be able to get through a difficult period as free men who can choose their own way of life. Let a uniform minimum be secured to everybody by all means; but let us admit at the same time that with this assurance of a basic minimum all claims for a privileged security for particular classes must lapse.”

“Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention.”

Difficult Creativity Economic Periods Invention Spurs

Author:Carisa Bianchi

“A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we still use today, like ‘Robert’, and in some case I tweaked them a little bit. I made ‘Edward’ into ‘Eddard’. If you look back at medieval times, no one knew how to spell their own names. There are a lot of variations that we’ve lost.”

Ifs Looks Littles Made Stills Use Today Wanted Names Lost Bits Difficult Cases Fantasy Too Much Little Bit England Spells Variation Medieval Flavour Medieval Times

Author:George R. R. Martin

“The most difficult thing for me is to take pictures from far away.”

Difficult Far Away Difficult Things

Author:Jacob Aue Sobol

“To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.”

Writing Enjoy Difficult Imagine Fingers Enjoyed Toes Fingers And Toes

Book:Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

Source: Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

“Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a part of our existence as human beings that its true impact upon us can be difficult to put into words. That power doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sex, either. From the time we are infants, we learn to associate the touch of a human hand with safety, with comfort, with love.”

Needs Humans Persons Hands Sex Difficult Human Beings Powerful Existence Comfort Safety Impact Touched Associates Underestimate Infant Primal Human Hands

Book:Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files

Source: Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files

“Madonna, as we know, is very difficult.”

Knows Difficult

Author:Giorgio Armani

“All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.”

Hard Difficult Grief Lord Ought Saint Chosen

Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“I know that every difficulty we face in life, even those that come from our own negligence or even transgression, can be turned by the Lord into growth experiences, a virtual ladder upward. I certainly do not recommend transgression as a path to growth. It is painful, difficult, and so totally unnecessary. It is far wiser and so much easier to move forward in righteousness. But through proper repentance, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and obedience to His commandments, even the disappointment that comes from transgression can be converted into a return to happiness.”

“That's what really seems to be the more difficult aspect - to have the men break through and challenge the best players in the world.”

Men World Seems Difficult Challenges Break Player He Man Aspect Break Through Best Players

Author:Michael Chang

“People grow. It's okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp.”

People Grows Difficult Okay

Author:Joss Stone

“Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.”

Mind Matter Difficult Development Habit

Book:The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature

Source: The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature

“The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.”

People Speak Difficult Ministry

Author:John Ortberg

“We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other.”

Humans Difficult Human Beings

Author:Geoffrey Hill

“What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.”

Littles Persons Found Difficult Genius Demand Inferiority

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and unbelievable sadness for the parents, families and co-workers effected by this tragedy. We are ALL touched by this either directly or indirectly.... May hearts be comforted at such a devastating time. The world is with you.... I know I am.”

“With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.”

Knows Easy Difficult Steps Novel Keep Going One Step At A Time

Author:Jane Smiley

“Just because we go through a difficult situation, it doesn’t mean that the future is predetermined. The future is very much in our hands, in our actions.”

Mean Hands Action Difficult Situation Our Actions Difficult Situations Predetermined

Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.”

People World Years Littles Kids Bits Difficult Term Stage Succeed Little Bit Lows Rate Starting Like Me

Author:Daley Thompson

“It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.”

Men Running Difficult Tasks Roots Plant Errors Favors Paradox

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.”

Would Be Jobs Difficult Managers

Author:Dennis Bergkamp

“I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.”

Play Difficult Grew Grew Up Screenwriting Playwriting

Author:Zoe Kazan

“TV is terrific. It's really fast paced which I find difficult.”

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Author:Ann Dowd

“The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Humans Whole Body Would Be Next Difficult Walks Rooms Color Standing Speakers Bass Unified Neon Eyeballs

Author:Jim Drain

“We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.”

People Knows Way Ideas Character Difficult Circumstances Who You Are Tested Difficult Circumstances

Author:Erich Hoeber

“Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your life.”

Difficult Careers Huge Portions

Author:Curtis Jackson

“I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.”

Said Ends Age Young Difficult Personality Dad Battle Picks My Dad Nuclear Engineers Young Age Negotiating Scapegoat

Author:Faith Prince

“I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.”

Giving Trying Art I Can Remember Artist Felt Difficult Fascination Yeats

Author:Lucian Freud

“It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.”

Speak Difficult Admirer

Author:Isak Dinesen

“I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.”

Looks Hard Used Difficult Twenties Mirrors Difficult Times

Author:Janet Jackson

“Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.”

Trying Difficult Voice Situation Paid Opposition Keep Going High Prices

Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

“I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals.”

People Years Individual Difficult Security Buddhism Six Prison Our Society Helpful Maximum Death Row Prison System

Author:Joan Halifax

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