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“Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.”

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Author:Jeff Bridges

“Don't get seduced by your own stuff. Don't get high on your own supply. The hardest thing as a filmmaker is when you're watching a film that you've worked on for several years. You know every frame so intimately that holding lots of the objectivity of a new viewer who has just seen it for the first time is the hardest thing. Every aesthetic decision you make - and you make thousands of them every day, have to - in theory, must be done from you being a blank slate. You almost have to run a program, like a mind wipe, every time you watch the movie.”

“The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen years, and the expectations of making it out of my town were slim to none.”

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Author:Thomas Jones

“One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.”

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Author:Benjamin Stone

“It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.”

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Author:Ann Goldstein

“My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.”

Believe Play Challenges Teaching Sitting Down And Hardest Hardest Thing Sitting Down

Author:Valerie June

“The hardest thing in a novel is time. You've got [a line like] "two weeks later, he woke up with a headache," and you've got to add up that entire two weeks and what the date is and whether it works. That kind of stuff drives me crazy and if I don't have it exactly right, I can't move forward because I don't feel confident.”

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Author:T.C. Boyle

“The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.”

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Author:Elle Fanning

“That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.”

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Author:Bryce Dallas Howard

“When I was just about to leave, and when I realised that I wasn't going to wake up in the morning and do this again - that was probably the hardest thing for me. Leaving this family that I'd created on set, with all the cast and the crew was very sad for me.”

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Author:Jared Gilman

“Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.”

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Author:Dan Chaon

“The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.”

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Author:Jonathan Bennett

“One of the hardest things about my job is that there kind of is no one rulebook that applies to all situations.”

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Author:Ethan Hawke

“One of the hardest things I've had to learn is to let it go. At the end of the show or the end of the rehearsal day to just take a deep breath and say, "Alright, that was it. That was the day."”

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Author:Taissa Farmiga

“As all entrepreneurs will say, "surround yourself with good people". That is the hardest thing : finding good people.”

People Findings Entrepreneur Hardest Surround Good People Hardest Thing Surround Yourself Surround Yourself With Good People

Author:Ronnie Apteker

“I asked Michael Jackson once. I said to him, 'How were you able to go from the Jackson Five to the biggest star in the world? What was your secret, Michael?' He said, 'Ricky, stay inspired. That's the hardest thing to do. If you can figure out a way to stay inspired, you can make it.'”

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Author:Ricky Schroder

“I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.”

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Author:David Longstreth

“I found the ability to become still. The hardest thing for people to do is just be still. And in that stillness you create motion.”

People Stills Found Ability Hardest Stillness Hardest Thing

Author:Gonjasufi

“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.”

Source: James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences

“The hardest thing for me is crying. Where I'm from, it's been instilled in me since I was little that men don't cry. Thank God for teardrops and menthol.”

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Author:Jacob Lofland

“The hardest thing about Berlin is letting it belong to other people.”

People Hardest Hardest Thing Berlin

Author:Darryl Pinckney

“I think probably anyone would say, the worst and the hardest things to deal with is when people say things that aren't true. Or that are kind of true but exaggerated.”

People Thinking Kind Deals Worst Hardest Hardest Thing Exaggerated

Author:Carmen Electra

“I think really one of the hardest things for me always was just the walk to the ring.”

Thinking Walks Rings Hardest Hardest Thing

Author:Daniel Bryan

“2015 was really the hardest and the best year of my life. I learned a lot. I went through a lot of personal heartbreak, loss, and turmoil. I had to find my way out of sinking under the weight of it and it was the hardest thing I had to do.”

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Author:Camila Cabello

“I think the hardest thing for a person is to know what those twelve things are that they need to work on that will bring the return of success to their life.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“The hardest thing, particularly in the fashion industry in Canada, has been access to capital.”

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Author:Joe Mimran

“I'm 52 years old and blindness has been the single hardest thing I deal with every minute of every day.”

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Author:Jennifer Rothschild

“The hardest thing for a basketball player to do is dribble two really hard dribbles. You are flying, and then pull up and shoot a ball from 15, 17 feet. It's the hardest thing in the game.”

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Author:John Calipari

“Probably the hardest thing to do was the beginning of the movie ["300"], I think, when we were in Sparta and all that - just getting in the groove.”

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Author:Zack Snyder

“Sometimes that's the hardest thing is to not do anything, but just to trust what's on the page.”

Sometimes Pages Hardest Hardest Thing

Author:Kyle Chandler

“Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.”

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Author:Wally Lamb

“One of the hardest things in politics is to convince people to do things now that will have a good effect 20 or 30 years from now because politicians tend to have a short-term view. They are more attentive to things that people care about today.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“For me, it's about risk taking, taking things in new directions. Because every single time, no matter how much you learn, you can never say, "Okay, I did the hardest thing I ever did. I'm prepared now. Now it's going to be easy." Of course it's not easy.”

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Author:David Copperfield

“I tell people, "It's the hardest thing to explain, but it's the easiest thing to understand." And all anybody really needs to know is, the struggles of life, the joy of life, the excitement and the heartbreak of life is something we can all connect to. And I like to hope that the inclusivity of the show [This Is Us] is something that audiences will relate to.”

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Author:Milo Ventimiglia

“For me, the hardest thing was dropping the whole Latino comic title.”

Whole Hardest Comic Titles Hardest Thing Dropping Latino

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“We find that when we make an acquisition, or we have a hiring experience, that's one of the hardest things to change. If you've been working for a company where you didn't dare challenge your boss, or what's politically correct in the company, then it affects your career.”

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Author:Charles Koch

“The hardest thing to do as an actor is to be simplistic, and to just be.”

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Author:Julie Benz

“I drink a few beers, and I've smoked a little pot. But I'm too health conscious to do it regularly. I run a lot. I don't smoke cigarettes. Pot is the hardest thing I've tried, really.”

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Author:Kenny Chesney

“So many things tear us apart from each other. That's the hardest thing, to fit with all the hatred and pain we're embroiled in. I mean, we're a very violent species, physically and emotionally.”

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Author:Ellar Coltrane

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.”

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Author:Stephen King

“The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.”

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Author:Donald Knuth

“The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.”

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.”

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Author:Ricki Lake

“Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.”

“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”

“I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.”

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Author:Bruno Mars

“Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.”

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Author:Gary Oldman

“The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.”

People Ifs Want Needs Nice Crazy Fame Conversation Hardest Hardest Thing Being Famous

Author:Al Pacino

“Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.”

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Author:Matthew Perry

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