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“Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different filmmakers, actors, producers etc. It's a very difficult business. There aren't a lot of Africans Americans or people of color in high positions in Hollywood that we can green-light films.”

People Needs Different Hard Light Film Actors Difficult Support Position Color Hollywood Green Producers African American Filmmaker Rely Etc Cohesion American Film Green Lights

Author:Paula Patton

“Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and "must have-once-been-beautiful" begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.”

Ifs Knows Trying Stills I Can Hard Age Beautiful Attention Five Cutting Cease Forty

Author:Paulina Porizkova

“Facebook is such a basic utility. It's something that is such a part of peoples' lives, I think it's hard to imagine it going away.”

Thinking Hard Imagine Going Away Utility

Author:Sean Parker

“One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.”

Hard My Friends Difficulty Lifestyle Live Life

Author:Sean Parker

“I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'”

Needs Hard Play Beautiful Computer Vocal

Author:Steve Perry

“My wife and I left New York when she got pregnant - we just thought it would be really hard to stay in the city.”

Hard Would Be Left Cities Wife New York My Wife Pregnant

Author:Tom Perrotta

“The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.”

Hard Wonder Kitsch Wonder Woman

Author:Maggie Q

“I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.”

Ifs Thinking Hard Stories Use Opportunity Social Deals Technology Media Social Media Traditional Publishers New Technology Proactive

Author:Ian Rankin

“You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.”

Ifs Needs Ideas Hard Hard Work Elements Deserve Luck Critical Great Idea

Author:Ian Rankin

“My dad is such a good man, hard-working.”

Men Hard Hard Work Dad My Dad Good Man

Author:Kelly Reilly

“It's always difficult, especially the U.S. Open, the last of the Grand Slams. It's always tough because you know, the season is very long. I really played a lot this year. Sometimes it's really hard to stay focused all the time because you're really tired after the whole season.”

Knows Years Long Sometimes Hard Whole Lasts Difficult Tough Seasons Tired Focused Stay Focused Slam

Author:Agnieszka Radwanska

“Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.”

Wells Kind I Can Sometimes Hard Play Winning Opposites

Author:Agnieszka Radwanska

“I was so happy to go to prom so I could have a mental break because I've been working so hard. It felt so good to feel normal for once, and then the next day, I was in the gym again.”

Feels Hard Next Felt Break Normal Gym Next Day Prom Working So Hard

Author:Aly Raisman

“To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!”

Trying Hard Next Fun Ready Hard Work Months Instinct Candidates Being Yourself Guts Apprentice Gut Instinct

Author:Bill Rancic

“If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.”

Ifs Hard Helping Force Hours Lines Powerful Normal Paid Towns Competition Workers Bottom Stores Offering Unemployment Employers Bottom Line Robust

Author:Christina Romer

“Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.”

Ifs Littles Stills Hard Hard Work Argument Workers Fairness Minimum Disturbed Minimum Wage

Author:Christina Romer

“I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.”

Made Hard Creative Connections

Author:Michael J. Fox

“It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.”

Way Want Hard Jobs Turns Exploits Notoriety

Author:Donna Rice Hughes

“There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.”

People Firsts Country Hard Used Father Individual President Islam African American Hostility Antagonism American President Working Very Hard

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.”

People Thinking Trying Sometimes Hard Done Moving Talent Hard Work Make A Move

Author:Gabrielle Reece

“When you do a reality show and host shows, it's hard to have secrets.”

Hard Shows Reality Secret Host Reality Shows

Author:Giuliana Rancic

“If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time.”

People Ifs Should Hard Doubt Couple Jokes Negative Lays Patient Hard Times Be Patient Radar Having A Hard Time

Author:Michael J. Fox

“Working moms, stay-at-home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs.”

Hard Home Jobs Mom Stay At Home Working Mom Stay At Home Mom

Author:Hilary Rosen

“I suppose it hacks me off sometimes when people go on about all the other stuff, because I have really worked hard at my game, and I've been incredibly dedicated in getting myself fit, and getting my game right.”

People Sometimes Hard Games Stuff Goes On Fit Dedicated Hacks

Author:Jamie Redknapp

“You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.”

Ifs Knows Hard Hard Work Succeed Entrepreneur Passionate Doing You

Author:Jeff Raikes

“Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.”

Hard Earth Powerful Listening Music Is Angry Most Powerful Listening To Music

Author:Jerry Reed

“It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.”

Hard Poor New York

Author:Josh Radnor

“My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.”

Knows Hard Tricks

Author:Josh Radnor

“I'm naturally thin, so I don't have to work too hard at it. I love food, but I also love to work out. I think it makes everything work better.”

Thinking Hard Work Out Food Love I Love Food

Author:Keri Russell

“Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.”

Ideas Hard Moving Fighting Knowing Hard Work Discipline Perfection Foundation Elusive Choreography

Author:Keri Russell

“A lot of hard work has to go into your career, and preparation, and being your best at all times.”

Hard Careers Hard Work All Time Preparation

Author:Leven Rambin

“Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.”

Writing I Can Hard Bits Percent Originals Seventies

Author:Mike Rutherford

“With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.”

Want Hard Girl Levels Maturity Maturity Level

Author:Nikki Reed

“My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.”

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Author:Nikki Reed

“Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.”

Giving Self Hard Eye Faces Quality Hair Shapes Clothes Size Oneself Treasure Length Your Face

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.”

Doe Hard Facts

Author:Rudy Rucker

“It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.”

Hard Support Military Members Iraq Operations American Military Military Operations

Author:Scott Ritter

“During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on “unearned income” have bounced up and down with regularity, and I’ve never detected any change in the appetite for hard work and accumulating wealth on the part of myself or any of my fellow capitalists.”

Years Hard Wealth Streets Hard Work Wall Taxes Fellows Income Appetite Capitalist Up And Down Regularity Accumulating Wealth

Author:Steven Rattner

“I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.”

Hard Working So Hard

Author:Usher

“I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can't say it came from hard-nosed business analysis... It was just something I really want to see built.”

Want I Can Ideas Hard Built Who You Are Analysis Obsessed

Author:Ben Silbermann

“I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it’s like they’re in the desert with no water, and they’re the ones that survive. But I’ve been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there’s usually something good at the end.”

People Ifs Knows Ends Hard Stories Water Team Entrepreneur Optimistic Desert Fortunate Hard Times Through Hard Times

Author:Ben Silbermann

“Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.”

Writing Hard Hard Work Errors Intuition Trials Trial And Error

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.”

Hard Feelings Artist Father Felt Careers Died Who I Am Hard Times Having A Hard Time

Author:Kiki Smith

“I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Hard Opportunity Given Given Opportunity

Author:Lorene Scafaria

“It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.”

Feels Hard Turns Vision Like You Directors Let It Go Screenwriters

Author:Lorene Scafaria

“I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.”

Thinking Believe Hard Promise Stones Bread Best Things Believe In Yourself Believe In You I Promise Emma Jessica Viola You Re The Best Sliced Bread

Author:Octavia Spencer

“People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.”

People Thinking World Years Hard Helping Home Reality Pay Support Player Coaches Tennis Travel The World Away From Home

Author:Samantha Stosur

“I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don't work, I won't get rewarded. It was a life long dream to win a Grand Slam so when I was able to do that it felt so good and I wanted to do it again. It's not that hard to stay motivated.”

Ifs Knows Long Hard Dream Able Wanted Winning Felt Determination Tennis Motivated Long Life Slam Stay Motivated Drive And Determination

Author:Samantha Stosur

“I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.”

Knows Way Years Hard Fall Sides Acting Five College Committed Quitting Five Years Dove I Quit Go Hard

Author:Sonja Sohn

“It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.”

Hard Past

Author:Andy Summers

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