Difficult Quotes
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Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love.
Helen Keller
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I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in love with sentences that you then have to cut. I actually find that really difficult to do; there's something so demoralizing about looking at a pile of not very great sentences. As I ease into writing every morning, I tweak a sentence and then tweak a paragraph.
Molly Antopol
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I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult.
Eric Lange
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Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.
Horace
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For the lazy, all work is difficult.
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
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I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.
Terry Eagleton
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There is a very difficult period in a comedian's career - it's that window of time where you're good enough to draw tickets but nobody knows you yet.
Bill Burr
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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.
Norm MacDonald
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Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.
Melissa de la Cruz
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In any organization there ought to be the possibility of discussion... fence sitting is an art, and it's difficult, and it's important to do, rather than to go headlong in one direction or the other. It's just better to have action, isn't it than to sit on the fence? Not if you're not sure which way to go, it isn't.
Richard Feynman
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There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.
Elliot S. Maggin
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It was tough doing 'Underneath the Lintel' in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult.
Richard Schiff
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Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.
Terry Brooks
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Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?
Sandra Day O'Connor
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An army that fought and won a war decisively finds it even more difficult to undergo change.
Eric Shinseki
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It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.
Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
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In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.
Deanna Petherbridge
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My childhood was happy, joyful but very difficult.
Maria das Gracas Silva Foster
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In difficult times bring to mind my words and the sound of my voice. In that way, I shall always be present for you.
Carolyn Meyer
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As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments.
Sebastiao Salgado
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Worry is not the symptom of a problematic life; it's the problem. Situations pass that make our life difficult, it's the worry that stay's with us that makes us ultimately unhappy.
Garrison Wynn
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It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.
Catherine Deneuve
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A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.
Brian Regan