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“People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.”

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Author:Mark Leyner

“A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.”

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Author:Norm MacDonald

“When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.”

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Author:Rachel Maddow

“If you want to go on the floor, go in disguise because otherwise you won't be able to. I would just put on a full Darth Vader costume and walk through Comic-Con so I can actually check it out and enjoy it as opposed to being approached by everyone, which is lovely, but it gets very difficult to enjoy because there's so many people there.”

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Author:Kunal Nayyar

“The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.”

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Author:Taslima Nasrin

“I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.”

People Age Difficult Gauges

Author:Richard O'Brien

“Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.”

People Want Kind Country Difficult Issues

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.”

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Author:Eckhard Pfeiffer

“I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.”

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Author:Madeleine Peyroux

“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.”

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Author:Paula Patton

“In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.”

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Author:Donna Shalala

“I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.”

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Author:Emeli Sande

“My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.”

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Author:Thomas Mallon

“There is wisdom in not letting anyone really know who you are or what you are like. If you define yourself, people hold you in their mind a certain way making it difficult to change.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.”

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Author:John Lewis

“For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.”

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Author:Michael Sheen

“It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.”

People Feels Difficult Streets

Author:Audrey Tautou

“It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.”

People Knows Easy Difficult

Author:Daley Thompson

“I believe that as people will look at me, they'll see a person who has dealt with a number of very difficult and challenging circumstances and that I have been able to successfully navigate through those and create greater strength and greater opportunity. I believe that people recognize that I'm someone who has confidence in America's cause.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.”

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Author:Tony Benn

“All the billions of people who now inhabit our planet are putting a terrific strain on its aura, making it difficult, even for evolved people to become aware of their past-life knowledge and talents.”

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