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“The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.”

Thinking Needs I Can Hard Hands Common Worry Approach Meat Stubborn Plunge Unyielding New Approach

Author:Ben Marcus

“Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.”

Ifs Hard Bigs Stars Directors

Author:Chris Messina

“People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove.”

People Giving Mean Hard Care Sound Break Records Performances Hard Times Who Cares Groove

Author:Christian Marclay

“I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.”

Thinking Book Hard Christian Okay Instance Manage

Author:Donald Miller

“In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.”

Ifs World Hard Enough Feelings Today Hard Work Smart Burden Clever Anything Is Possible Today's World

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.”

I Can Hard Jobs Hard Work

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“I definitely challenge people. But hopefully, I am working harder than anybody else, and so people won't resent the fact that I want them to work hard, as well.”

People Want Wells Hard Facts Challenges Hard Work Harder Hopefully Resent

Author:Gina McCarthy

“It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.”

Believe Hard Father College Setting Settings Novelists Shy Graduates Brad College Graduates

Author:Grant Morrison

“When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.”

Hard Judging Early 20s

Author:Ian McShane

“The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.”

Real Hard Acting Real Life Boundaries

Author:James Mangold

“Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder.”

Ifs Writing Hard Plans Emotional Harder Emotional Things

Author:Lauren Miller

“What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.”

People Humans Hard Fall Practice Style Walking Mountain Appreciate Lifetime Manage Skulls Unstable

Author:Randall Munroe

“I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.”

Hard Numbers Amount Noble Impression Shelves Insignificant Eyeballs

Author:Randall Munroe

“It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.”

People Thinking World Should Humans Hard Black Human Beings Assuming Practicals Holes Application Quests Black Hole

Author:Yuri Milner

“I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.”

Source: I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is

“Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up.”

Want Giving Has Beens Hard College Giving Up

Author:Beverley Mitchell

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

“TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.”

Knows Want Years Hard Play Character Film Know How Hell Tvs Hard Work Murder Range Survived Angela

Author:Christopher Meloni

“I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.”

People Mind Different Hard Play Joy Song Wish Millions Written Keys Glad

Author:Chuck Mangione

“My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.”

Firsts Hard Jobs Focus Campaigns Obligation

Author:Claire McCaskill

“I like the idea of dating, but I'm not dating anyone exclusively, particularly right now. It's hard to be in a relationship unless you're ready to go public with it. So it's a lot easier for me to not be in a relationship. I really don't want that part of my life to be tabloid fodder.”

Want Ideas Hard Ready Easier Right Now Dating Tabloids Fodder

Author:Cory Monteith

“I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.”

World Writing Children Two Hard Fun

Author:Denise Mina

“I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.”

People Hard Hard Work

Author:J. J. Abrams

“The fact that people are already reading and loving something I wrote is still hard to believe.”

People Believe Stills Hard Facts Reading Hard To Believe Loving Something

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“"Comic book" has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call Die Hard "a comic-book movie," when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.”

People Mind Mean Book Hard Stories Form Dies Comic Genre Vehicle Comic Book

Author:Frank Miller

“It's better to grow your employees, steer them into a place that they can learn and succeed, and want to work hard and be loyal, than to have a revolving door of employees. That's demoralizing.”

Want Hard Grows Doors Hard Work Succeed Employee Loyal Steers Revolving Demoralizing Revolving Doors

Author:Glen Mazzara

“I work hard and I don't come from a rich family.”

Hard Rich Hard Work Rich Family

Author:Holly Madison

“Once I decide I want to do something, I just work really hard and I do it, and I just know it's going to work. I think really positively.”

Thinking Knows Want Hard Going To Work Positively

Author:Holly Madison

“Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.”

Hard Grows Hawaii

Author:James MacArthur

“But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.”

Hard Today Acting Careers Successful

Author:James MacArthur

“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.”

Source: Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes

“Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.”

World Hard Cities My Favorite Paris Cities In The World Favorite City

Author:Tony Visconti

“I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard to see past that. I'm not so sure that's smart in the long run.”

Long Hard Running Past Young Careers Havens Smart Actresses Long Runs Items Provocative Editorials

Author:Allison Williams

“Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you’ve done a scene 18 times. I don’t want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It’s funny finding what’s challenging about acting as you go.”

Want Sometimes Hard Done Challenges Acting Laughing Scene Findings Very Good Reputation Fake Brag

Author:Allison Williams

“You know, I think when you are unemployed, especially for a long time, it's hard to be inspired or hopeful almost about anything. So it's tough, especially when there has been such gridlock here in D.C. You know, when we are fighting and can't get anything done, whether you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, no one wins.”

Thinking Knows Long Has Beens Hard Done Fighting Winning Republican Long Time Tough Democrat Inspired Conservative Hopeful Unemployed Be Inspired Gridlock

Author:Peter Welch

“It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears.”

“There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of the currently record low fixed mortgage rates and significantly reduce their monthly mortgage payments.”

Way Hard Helping Records Lows Advantage Rate Fixed Payment Better Ways Mortgage Homeowners Buoys Mortgage Rate

Author:Mark Zandi

“Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy.”

Way Made Hard Problem Today Easy Millions Economy Creating Financial Credit Bubbles Contrast Housing Loan Calamity Mortgage Recessions Great Recession Housing Market Housing Bubble

Author:Mark Zandi

“I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.”

People Trying Book Hard Bigs Hate Aim

Author:Markus Zusak

“It's extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a billion downloads but that wasn't a sustainable business.”

Hard Love Is Half Company Products Models Billions One Love Downloads Business Models

Author:Niklas Zennstrom

“When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It's not trying to do the obvious - that's the hard part.”

Ifs Trying Looks Hard Bigs Obvious Reports Google Fashionable Big Business Analysts Skype

Author:Niklas Zennstrom

“I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.”

Knows Way Feels Writing Littles Stills Hard Lost Bits Process Example Little Bit My Way Familiarity

Author:Sara Zarr

“It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.”

Thinking Writing Believe Wells Hard Mother Night Games Interest Imagination Careers College Serious Pursuit My Sister Every Night Make Believe Playing Make Believe

Author:Sara Zarr

“I love 'Safe Men.' Now it's getting all this culty kind of - it just came out on DVD. That was awesome. I read that script, I never laughed so hard in my life.”

Men Kind Hard Safe Scripts Laughed Dvds

Author:Steve Zahn

“You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.”

People Stills Hard Fighting Games Bottom Breeze

Author:Steve Zahn

“I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.”

Ifs Thinking Hard Character Hollywood Chinese Really Great Asian Great Character

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.”

Want Hard Wanted Actors Groups Disappear Traditional Chinese Dancer Unfair Working So Hard

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.”

Ifs Knows Needs Humans Hard Enough Shows Body Loss Broken Degrees Stronger Filled Bones Medical Holes Cracks Replaced Human Body Healed Healed You

Book:Come Home: A Novel

Source: Come Home: A Novel

“It's too easy to give up on the things that are hard to accomplish.”

Giving Hard Easy Giving Up Accomplish Things That Are Hard Easy To Give Up

Author:C. R. Johnson

“Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion.”

Ifs Knows Men Hard Film Hate He Man Intellect Senses Devotion Interviews Furious Stanley Craftsmanship

Author:Tim Cahill

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