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“I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.”

Wells Enough Speak Language Wish Difficult Couple Spokes Difficult Things

Author:Jodie Foster

“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.”

People Writing Wells Enough Facts Faces Difficult Talking Ambition Block Mysterious Prescriptions Hysteria Writer's Block Writing Well

Author:Thomas Mallon

“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.”

People Needs Wells Life Is Purpose Order Asks Difficult Creativity Economic Type Ambition Tasks Aspiration Labour Insecurity Contracts Portions Immense Exhaustion Economic Systems Repetitive

Author:Tony Benn

“The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.”

Men World Way Writing Wells Looks Done Wanted Difficult Leap Imaginative

Author:Anthony Minghella

“Your level of gratitude determines your level of happiness, as well as your potential for success. It's difficult to be happy without gratitude.”

Wells Difficult Levels Attitude Gratitude Determine Bad Day Attitude Of Gratitude

Author:Bob Burg

“I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Facts Difficult Known Gay Kissing Sexuality Screens Homosexuality Well Known Convincing Frogs Kiss Me

Author:Stephen Fry

“There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well is as interesting and as difficult as painting it?”

People Wells Difficult Interesting Imagine Painting Contrary Imagine That Comrade

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again.”

People Thinking Wells Difficult Battle Difficulty Mere Dear Dear Friend Approximation

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.”

Wells Difficult Creative Involved Aspect Difficulty Destructive

Book:Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness

Source: Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness

“I think my faith is important. Being young as well, sometimes it's difficult, but I've got a good family behind me as well.”

Thinking Wells Important Sometimes Young Difficult Behinds Good Family

Author:Jermain Defoe

“The reason people think I look good now is because I was never a beauty as a wee girl. And thank heavens. It's frightening to get old anyway, but if your looks were the cornerstone of your life, well, it would be very difficult.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Looks Reason Would Be Girl Heaven Difficult Frightening Cornerstones

Author:Lulu

“When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well (perhaps indispensably) as a rhetorical device. Such cases do not function as speculations in the pejorative sense - as silly stories that provide insight into complex mechanisms - but rather as idealized illustrations to exemplify a difficult point of theory. (Other fields, like philosophy and the law, use such conjectural cases as a standard device.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms