Gertrude Bell Quotes
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Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.
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'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.
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To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
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I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.
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Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
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I feel satisfied after achieving something difficult.
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The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.
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Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.
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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
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It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.
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Fear is the one emotion that unleashed can destroy anything and anyone.
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I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.
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I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.
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It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious.
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
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I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.
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Some believers, as though from a drinking bout, go so far as to oppose themselves and alter the original text of the gospel three or four or several times over, and change its character to enable them to deny difficulties in the face of criticism. (Against Celsus 2, 27)
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There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.
