“I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.” ThinkingHardFeelingsTermStrangeSceneHappeningsStrange Places Author:Aleksa Palladino
“I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.” MadeStillsHardFeelingsMightGoalTermWalksMaterialsExcitedMade ItAuditionsShort TermShort Term Goals Author:Olivia Thirlby
“I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.” LongHardFilmTermChanceMy OwnCareersLong TimeFeatures Author:Duncan Jones
“In these early games you're focused on your performance. Just coming out and playing hard. There's not a lot you can do in terms of preparing and in terms of scouting.” HardGamesTermCan DoPerformancesFocusedComing OutPreparingScouting Author:Dom Starsia
“Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.” WayKindHardFeelingsLightNightCertainTermEffectsDirectorsCamerasValuableCommodityLensesSpadesHard DaysCamera Lenses Author:Michael Patrick Jann
“It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting ... A strategist should think in terms of paralysing, not of killing.” ThinkingShouldWellsHardFightingTermEnemyMilitaryDestructionKillingStrategist Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“It's really hard to stay healthy over the long term of making a movie so that's why those things matter when you're trying to keep your health, literally.” TryingLongMatterHardTermHealthyLong Term Author:Elizabeth Banks
“The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.” MindHardWantedFunGoalTermSeriousCallingPureNegativeLifetimeFinalsAlternativesAnalysisOccupationOfferingShort TermHippieColorful Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.” HardAmericaTermJusticeRacePatternsHard Truths Author:Hillary Clinton
“In the distance, I see a frightful storm brewing in the form of un-tethered government debt. I choose the words -“frightful storm' - deliberately to avoid hyperbole. Unless we take steps to deal with it, the long-term fiscal situation of the federal government will be unimaginably more devastating to our economic prosperity than the subprime debacle and the recent debauching of credit markets that we are working right now so hard to correct.” LongHardGovernmentFormTermDealsSituationStepsEconomicRight NowDistanceProsperityCreditDebtStormLong TermFederal GovernmentBrewingHyperboleEconomic ProsperityDebaclesGovernment Debt Author:Richard W. Fisher
“How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! Tosparethegrossness ofthenames, and to dothe thing yet moreseverely, isto drawa full face, and tomake the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing.” MenHardFacesEasyTermFoolDepthNosesVillainCheeksStanding OutRoguesKnavesBlockheads Author:John Dryden
“Here on Earth there was undoubtedly a Christ. One of the reasons he swept in so suddenly and he would go forward so hard is, he had a good assist in back of him in terms of an implant.” HardReasonEarthTermChristImplants Author:L. Ron Hubbard
“We have worked very hard to accommodate the requests from the Mayor and the Council that changed the terms of the agreement that brought the Montreal Expos to Washington. Because we believe in the future of Baseball in the nation's capital, we have signed a lease that honors the 2004 agreement, while conforming to the emergency legislation that the Council passed last month.” BelieveHardLastsNationsTermChangedMonthsHonorBaseballAgreementLegislationConformEmergenciesCouncilRequestMayorsAccommodateMontrealLease Author:Bob DuPuy
“Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able to devote sufficient time and effort to become value investors, and only a fraction of those have the proper mind-set to succeed.” MindLongHardAbleValuesTermDealsEffortWillingHard WorkDisciplineSucceedInvestmentInvestingLong TermSufficientHorizonInvestorsStrictFractionsMind Set Author:Seth Klarman
“I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.” WantArtHardArtistTermHoursMaterialsFindingsResearchVisualsDepartmentImpressProps Author:Cary Fukunaga
“If I had a long-term partner, I dont think Id be an actor. Itd be too much of a strain; you have to work too hard to balance that life with a family and a mortgage and all that stuff - it would be too much.” IfsThinkingLongHardWould BeActorsStuffTermToo MuchBalancePartnersLong TermStrainMortgage Author:Rory McCann