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“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.”

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Author:Ian Rankin

“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.”

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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

“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

“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.”

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Author:Lucian Freud

“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

“Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves. This makes it difficult for them to mature. Many never outgrow the need for ongoing parental guidance and control. As a result, their parents continue to invade, manipulate, and frequently dominate their lives.”

Needs Feels Trying Children Parent Difficult Results Risk Masters Guidance Mature Controlled Anxious Fearful Helpless Manipulate Ongoing Inadequate Parental Parental Guidance

Author:Susan Forward

“I always try to buy just what I need. You get ideas as to what's in season and what's best. I think if you have a preconceived idea before shopping, that makes it difficult. You have to have an open mind.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Trying Mind Ideas Difficult Seasons Shopping Need You Open Mind I Need You Preconceived Ideas

Author:Julia Child

“Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.”

Writing Trying Difficult Born Expression Outdated

Author:Agnes Denes

“Saying "muff" to someone and trying to be romantic is incredibly difficult.”

Trying Difficult

Author:Jamie Bell

“Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.”

Writing Trying Firsts Book Reading Difficult Originals Trade Productions Destroying Daring Books And Reading Great Author

Author:Andre Maurois

“Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little. If your mind has ideas of progress, you may say, 'Oh, this pace is terrible!' But actually it is not. When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself.”

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Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“Were really trying to make Crisis as accessible as possible, which is extremely difficult to do because it involves so many characters. But, again, you dont need to know all the details. Obviously the mainstays are there Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and heavily focused on. There are a ton of great characters, and a lot happens to them over the course of Infinite Crisis . Some change and evolve, others fall, but it really is about trying to bring everybody on stage. We probably have 90 percent of the DCU showing up, if not more but without losing focus on what the story is.”

“Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.”

Trying Difficult Century Libertarian Socialist Balancing Act

Author:David Hare

“You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.”

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Author:Victoria Beckham

“It's always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements.”

Trying Past Difficult Achievement

Author:Michael Jackson

“Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.”

Trying Wells Stills Reading Easy Difficult Rooms Skills Improvement Room For Improvement

Author:Chris Hayes

“There is a note that comes into the human voice by which you may know real weariness. It comes when one has been trying with all his heart and soul to think his way along some difficult road of thought. Of a sudden he finds himself unable to go on. Something within him stops. A tiny explosion takes place. He bursts into words and talks, perhaps foolishly. Little side currents of his nature he didn't know were there run out and get themselves expressed. It is at such times that a man boasts, uses big words, makes a fool of himself in general.”

Source: Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories

“In the name of Israel's God, if every man would do right, and when he has done what he knows is right, then stops till he knows what next, there never would be a jar in the camp. And I defy the man to come forward that ever led so large a people in such difficult and trying circumstances, in so much peace, as I have led this people during this campaign, with the help of God and my brethren.”

People Ifs Knows Men Trying Done Helping Would Be Next Names Difficult He Man Circumstances Israel Campaigns Every Man Camps Jars Brethren

Author:Brigham Young

“Getting my father to throw anything away was pretty difficult. He was not trying to hide who he was, and he said, you don't have to hide the fact that I'm manic-depressive. You can tell people that's who I am. It's - explains a lot about your situation.”

People Trying Said Facts Father Difficult Situation Who I Am Manic Depressive

Author:Maya Forbes

“The anger that you see expressed out there in Los Angeles, in my district this evening, is a righteous anger, and it's difficult for me to say to the people, "Don't be angry." When people are angry and enraged, they do do senseless things. They do act even sometimes out of character, and that's why it is the responsibility of America to try and avoid putting people in these kinds of situations.”

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Author:Maxine Waters

“I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question. Sometimes the journey is finding out where you stand in relationship to your own humanity and to the humanity of others.”

Thinking Way Writing Trying Important Book Sometimes Humanity Difficult Journey Findings Where You Stand

Author:Chris Abani

“If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities. It is undeniably an effort, but probably one worth making, for the basic questions are important and the new experimental results are often fascinating. And if the layman runs into serious perplexities, he can be consoled with the thought that the points which baffle him are more than likely the ones for which the professionals have not found satisfactory answers.”

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Author:Edward Condon

“I'd been told there are 10 difficult holes and eight impossible ones. I'm still trying to work out which the 10 difficult holes are.”

Trying Stills Difficult Impossible Golf Work Out Eight Holes Golf Course

Author:Lee Westwood

“It's very difficult to move yourself up bit by bit. It's like trying to eat an elephant for God's sake. I can do it. It's just I have to have it bite by bite, you know. It's possible. You can eat an elephant, but you have to do it bite by bite. You can't do it all in one go.”

Knows Trying I Can Moving Bits Difficult Can Do Golf Sake Bites Elephants I Can Do It

Author:Colin Montgomerie

“It is very difficult to follow your own method all the time because you may crash against some directors who want from you something different. Trying to understand the material, who you're working with, and how can you fit in there. That is my approach.”

Want Trying May Different Difficult Materials Fit Directors Approach Method Crash

Author:Antonio Banderas

“For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look. But, I think it's important to change every time and come up with something that's as interesting as it can be, for your characters.”

Thinking Way Trying Looks I Can Important Play Character Difficult Interesting Come Up Because I Can Exposing

Author:Johnny Depp

“The idea of my kids being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about. I'm trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it's difficult to raise children the way I was raised. But I took away the west and north wing of the house for those guys. So, they're not allowed in there.”

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Author:Adam Sandler

“It struck me that Steve Jobs, known to be such a brilliant speaker, had a very difficult time explaining things when he was younger. He was describing technology that didn't exist. He had MIT engineers, and he was trying to tell them what he wanted; but there were no terms for what he wanted yet. I think a lot of his early frustration was trying to quickly get his vision to the finish line.”

“My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and we would have to move around a lot. Trying to adapt to new schools and new places can be really tough.”

Trying Sometimes School Moving Difficult Military Dad Tough My Dad New Places

Author:Nolan Gould

“If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, youre going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.”

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Author:Steve Southerland

“It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.”

Trying Difficult Distrust

Book:Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life

Source: Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life

“All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?”

Life Trying Wanted Difficult Live Life Difficult Life

Book:Demian

Source: Demian

“Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.”

Trying Country Home Difficult Special Liberation

Book:Green Dolphin Country

Source: Green Dolphin Country

“I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach.”

Thinking Trying Difficult Rich Truth Is Photographer Phenomenon Layers

Author:Sally Mann

“Happiness is a social creature. If you try to pursue it in a vacuum, it's very difficult to sustain it. But as soon as you get people focused on creating meaningful connections in the midst of their work, or increasing the meaning and depth of their relationships outside of work, we find happiness rising in step with that social connection.”

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Author:Shawn Achor

“For some reason there's this myth that creativity - [especially] in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have, or you don't. So when people first start writing, if they write something that's not very good, or if they try and it's difficult, they go, "Oh, I guess I don't have it." That doesn't seem very fair, you have to try and you have to work at it. If we get scared of one bad poem and quit, that's not doing anybody any good.”

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Author:Sarah Kay

“if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.”

Ifs Thinking Trying May Film Easy Difficult Poet Critics Painter

Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.”

Trying Art Whole Past Difficult Water Powerful Casts Fishing Attempting Fascination Faded

Author:Mary Stewart

“it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.”

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Author:Greta Garbo

“Recognizing the good, not just in one's own personal circumstances, but in the world, makes anything possible. When I am asked about the important characteristics of leadership, being of good, positive mind is at the top of my list. If a leader can focus on the meritorious characteristics of other people and try to play to their strengths as well as find value in even the most difficult situation, she can inspire hope and faith in others and motivate them to move forward.”

“Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.”

Trying Looks Important Difficult Impossible Awareness

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“I tried my hand at writing, I tried to write out a little script - and it's not too bad. Mostly, though, it let me understand how incredibly difficult that job is. I can't even imagine doing it on a weekly basis for a series in any way. That's tough. I think I'll try to leave that to smarter people than me.”

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Author:Nathan Fillion

“I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.”

Trying Ideas Seems Difficult Realizing Talent Pennies Bad Ideas

Author:Kathleen Winsor

“I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.”

Trying Persons Sometimes Difficult Nice Nice Person

Author:Jack Gleeson

“I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.”

Trying Difficult Keep Trying

Author:Jack Gleeson

“I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist. I am always looking for that part that I have never done before, which makes it all the more difficult, because people want to hire you for what theyve already seen you do.”

People Want Trying Done Artist Difficult

Author:W. Earl Brown

“I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challenge. But, you want to take up that challenge and try your best.”

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Author:Asa Butterfield

“I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.”

World Trying I Can Past Artist Difficult Growing Up Growing This World Standing Who I Am

Author:Matt Bomer

“I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.”

Thinking Trying Stills Difficult Church Convince

Author:Barry W. Lynn

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