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“I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.”

Thinking Men Hard Stories Moving Men And Women Edges Gender Domain Androgyny

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“I do have big ambitions, but I think we all do. I just want to keep working hard and being happy.”

Thinking Want Hard Bigs Ambition

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“In romantic comedies there's a certain ceiling and a floor that you can't necessarily love as hard, or hate as hard, or have as much pain, because you sink the shop of the romantic comedy. But in a certain drama, like some of the ones I've been doing, the ceiling and the floor was my own. And in many ways, that was a higher ceiling and a lower floor, so that was more of a band-with for those emotions.”

Way Hard Pain Certain Hate My Own Emotion Comedy Higher Drama Band Shops Ceilings

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“It's much easier to cry or be angry, but to really laugh and genuinely be buoyant and laugh. That's hard if you don't really feel that way.”

Ifs Way Feels Hard Laughing Cry Easier Angry

Author:Don Cheadle

“Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.”

Feels Persons Matter Hard Basketball Thirds Pressure No Matter What Passing Passings Grades Third Grade Playing Basketball

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.”

Sometimes Hard Artist Belief Tradition

Author:Hisham Matar

“Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when we knew less. These are the essentials of continued aesthetic discovery.”

Feels Children Hard Remember Essentials Expectations Discovery Areas Innocence Aesthetic Stride Switching Shuffling

Author:Sara Genn

“It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.”

“I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.”

Self Hard Able Opportunity Force Missing Prove Survival Illusion Driving Painter Extras Ambitious Driving Force Sceptic Publicists

Author:Stuart Pearson Wright

“What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking in painting, as opposed to thinking about painting?' These are important questions, and they are very hard to answer using the language of art history.”

Thinking Kind Art Important Hard Problem Happens Language Answers Painting Paint Historian Art History Important Questions

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.”

Hard Inspiration Indispensable

Author:Elaine de Kooning

“Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality... Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.”

People Hard Shows Reality Lying Roles Fashion Paper Photography News Photograph Deception Propaganda Glamorous

Author:Martin Parr

“Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.”

Looks Hard Observation Subtle

Author:Philip Pearlstein

“if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.”

Ifs Want Humans Littles Hard Bits Can Do Answers New York Depends Couple Solitude Little Bit Lonely Towns Phones London Paris Solitary You Can Do It Human Relations Human Relationships

Author:Arman

“A two-speed Europe will not be a strong Europe. The idea of making decisions and policies in a narrow circle, disregarding smaller EU members, will make it hard to engage them to commit to a common policy, which will weaken the union.”

Two Ideas Hard Strong Decision Common Policy Members Europe Unions Speed Circles Commit Making Decisions

Author:Georgi Parvanov

“Back at the Rash [a Florida nightclub], a waif in a lime latex body tube went into the rest room to snort the newest designer drug, XGB5, which gave people the uncanny sensation of throwing money away while chewing their own lips off. It was hard to come by and everyone had to have it.”

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Author:Tim Dorsey

“It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.”

People Want Important Different Hard Light Film Interesting Acting Watches Eating Ill Disorder Ballet Aesthetic Eating Disorder

Author:Amanda Schull

“It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball”

Author:Billy Beane

“It's hard for me to believe that it [World Trade Center Building 7] came down by itself... Twenty years from now, people will look at 9-11 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn't possibly have been done the way the government told us.”

People World Way Years Believe Looks Has Beens Hard Done Government Today Building Twenties Trade Assassination World Trade World Trade Center

Author:Andrew Napolitano

“It's really hard to grow with another person.”

Persons Hard Grows

Author:Lena Dunham

“My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Hard Mother Raised Work Out Bargains

Author:Ursula Burns

“Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.”

Ifs Hard Dies Paradigm

Book:The only thing that matters: bringing the power of the customer into the center of your business

Source: The only thing that matters: bringing the power of the customer into the center of your business

“Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.”

Hard Moral Practice Conditions Hard Work

Author:John Wooden

“Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence”

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Author:Jay Bilas

“Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.”

Mind Made Hard Seems Choices Easy Music Is Currents Choices Made

Author:Adam Gopnik

“I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today. ‘If only we believe hard enough we'll make it somehow.’ So goes the popular chant. What you believe is not important. Only believe... What is overlooked in all this is that faith is good only when it engages truth; when it is made to rest upon falsehood it can and often does lead to eternal tragedy. For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe the right thing about the right One.”

Ifs Believe Doe Made Important Hard Enough Today Periods Eternal Tragedy Right Thing Falsehood Recalls Overlooked

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Maybe it's whiner's fatigue, but I'm getting tired of hearing about how hard it is to start a company and be a CEO. It's not that hard.”

Hard Company Tired Hearing Ceo Fatigue Getting Tired Whiners

Author:David Ulevitch

“Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.”

People Hard Running Winning Company Successful Growing Higher Expectations Delusion Valleys Ironic Stakes Silicon Silicon Valley

Author:David Ulevitch

“There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.”

Needs Hard Shows Desire Humanity Understanding Mercy Show Me Brokenness Corresponding Things That Are Hard

Book:Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Source: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“If you want to solve hard problems, have hard problems.”

Ifs Want Hard Problem Solve

Author:Brewster Kahle

“To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.”

Trying Self Hard Fall Good Times Having A Good Time Self Actualization Actualization

Author:Cornelius Plantinga

“It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.”

Feels Hard Hurt Pity Frightened

Author:Lindy West

“And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?”

Way Littles Long Hard Reality Walks Alive Essence Reality Of Life Pleasant Why Not Bloody Harsh Harsh Reality

Book:The Lavender Garden: A Novel

Source: The Lavender Garden: A Novel

“Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.”

“I work hard, and managing an inventory-based business can be extremely stressful. The upside is that, as long as I get my job done, I can take time off pretty much any time I want.”

Want Long I Can Hard Done Jobs Hard Work Take Time Stressful Time Off Inventory

Author:Anne Taintor

“It's very hard to find men's clothes that do what you want, especially when you go through them as quickly as I do. I need them to be flashy, but I never like to be overdressed. I need to make a statement, but I hate wearing too many clothes.”

Men Want Needs Hard Hate Clothes I Hate What You Want Statements Find Me Flashy

Author:Mika

“To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.”

Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

“Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net.”

World Littles Hard Economy Environment Conditions Safety Workers Exposed Regulation Innovative Safety Net

Author:Richard Attias

“Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside.”

Hard Hands Individual Attitude Rich Rocks Hard Work Stones Fortune Seeking Dirt Chips Persistent Elusive Gems Mining Rubble Colourful

Author:Chris Murray

“Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses”

Littles Hard Dream Easy Bits Effort Too Much Plans Discipline Little Bit Mass Scary

Author:Chris Murray

“I forget, because it’s hard to realize that the same person who gives you so much love, and to whom you give so much in return, can go through the kinds of pain and suffering that nothing you do can alleviate.”

Giving Kind Persons Hard Pain Suffering Realizing Forget Return Much Love Pain And Suffering Alleviate

Book:This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

Source: This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

“What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and to love more than just the good things. It’s about showing that you’re willing to accept them for whatever they are, that they should not feel insecure or self-conscious in your presence, which can be a hard task to achieve.”

Ifs Feels Should Self Hard States Accepting Achieve Worst Willing Conscious Tasks Good Things Opening Vulnerable Insecure Self Conscious Your Presence

Author:Esther Earl

“Its hard to measure yourself if nobody is challenging you.”

Ifs Hard Challenges

Author:John Tomac

“We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop.”

Ifs Years Ideas Hard Feelings Might Guy Natural Evolution Sight Ghost Sensitive Suspects Bus Predator Uneasy Perfectly Natural Bus Stops Uneasy Feelings

Author:Seth Shostak

“A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.”

Hard Miserable Obsessed

Book:Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“I guarantee the people who study are going to be successful. Nothing can replace hard work.”

People Hard Study Successful Hard Work Guarantees Being Successful

Author:Freeman A. Hrabowski III

“It's so hard to figure out what's going on in biological systems. You just can't see them.”

Author:Erez Lieberman Aiden

“I am a die-hard romantic at heart and love the idea of love. But, when it comes to love, I kinda believe in the old world charm of romance - where there's mystery and intrigue.”

World Believe Heart Ideas Hard Romance Dies Mystery And Love Charm Intrigue Old World Hearts And Love

Author:Esha Gupta

“Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist.”

Men Want Heart Hard Eye Enjoy Ought Labor Slave Fruit Useless Obliged Working Man

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher -- a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works