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“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.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

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

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Author:Zack Snyder

“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.”

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Author:Emily VanCamp

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

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Book:Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know

Source: Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know

“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

“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.”

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Author:Richard D. Zanuck

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

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Author:Jacob Aue Sobol

“I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.”

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Author:Julie London

“The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.”

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Author:Greg Bryk

“Remakes are a difficult thing 'cause some people feel very protective of the original.”

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Author:Carey Mulligan

“If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.”

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Author:David Brooks

“All things are difficult before they are easy.”

“Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.”

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Author:J. J. Abrams

“It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.”

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Author:Andrew Wyeth

“I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important people in our lives can become fertile ground for the growth of enduring trust - trust that is actually stronger because it's been tested and proved through challenge.”

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Author:Stephen Covey

“In Buddhism balance is the most difficult thing, because it is overlooked.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“All of us have problems. We face them every day. How grateful I am that we have difficult things to wrestle with. They keep us young, they keep us alive, they keep us going, they keep us humble. Be grateful for your problems, and know that somehow there will come a solution. Just do the best you can, but be sure it is the very best.”

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Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“I just find in our world that forgiveness is becoming more and more a difficult thing for us to do.”

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Author:Tavis Smiley

“It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.”

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Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“After initial needs are metenough food, shelter, comfortthere is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.”

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Author:Geneen Roth

“There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.”

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Author:Meher Baba

“It's a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy.”

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Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“I’ve never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view... If you’re involved with imagination and the creative process, it’s not such a difficult thing to believe in a god. But I’m not involved in any religions.”

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Author:Nick Cave

“The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.”

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Author:Gao Xingjian

“Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time.”

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Book:Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated

Source: Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated

“A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.”

“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When I began to play Frisbee, I would play with my friends and we used to do difficult things. We would stand in front of lines of trees that were parallel. We would spend hours throwing frisbees back and forth between these tight spots.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most of the difficult things in golf are mental, not physical. Are subjective, not objective. Are the created phantasms of the mind, not the veritable realities of the course.”

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Author:Arnold Haultain

“We ask these players to do some very difficult things, for the team, the coaching staff, the school - at risk of injury. And when they do those things, I feel as if I'm in their debt. It's an honor to coach those guys. I want to be of service to them.”

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Author:Les Miles

“I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.”

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Book:The Life of Charlotte Brontë

Source: The Life of Charlotte Brontë

“Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.”

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Book:GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

Source: GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…

“Identity is a very difficult thing in the theatre. As an actor said to me one day, 'What are we doing today?' when we were doing a workshop. And I said, 'Oh, just be yourself'. And he said to me, 'I don't know who that is, I'm an actor'. And I begin to realise in fact that we seek identity because we're told we should have one, but I wonder whether it's necessary.”

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Author:George Ogilvie

“It's easy to make something with a million style-lines. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve, and that's how I approach design - very minimal, pare it down, perfect.”

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Author:Keith Michael

“Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.”

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Book:The doctor

Source: The doctor

“Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.”

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Author:Judy Collins

“All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.”

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Author:Lucille Clifton

“The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don't know who you are; you lose your boundaries, you lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.”

“Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.”

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Author:Benjamin Millepied

“I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.”

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Author:Dawn French

“Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.”

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Author:Daphne Guinness

“The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.”

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Author:Robin Ince

“One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.”

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Author:Jim Lee

“The most difficult thing has definitely been movies. From a comedian's standpoint, you think being real big is the best thing, but with movies, the screen is huge, you're big anyway! Also, coming from a TV personality - MTV was all about high energy and selling the hottest video - I had to learn to [take it down]. A lot of characters I'm playing are not necessarily that kind of guy.”

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Author:Bill Bellamy

“Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world.”

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Author:Kelly Slater

“Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyone with respect and dignity. This stops you from cynicism and negativity. End your day with that same attitude you started. Renew your contract with a day well completed.”

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Author:Rick Pitino

“I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.”

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Author:Richard Paul Evans

“The world loves to tell you how difficult things are, and the world's not exaggerating. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, and out of the bajillions of things in this universe that you can't control, what you can control is how hard you try, and if or when to pack it in.”

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Book:#Girlboss

Source: #Girlboss

“We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.”

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Author:George D. Prentice