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• Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, its the best feeling in the world.

  Brandon Jay McLaren

  Feelings, World, Comedy

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• My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

  Paddy Considine

  Fascination, Cinema, Human Nature

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• Acting can be a difficult business. When I was younger, if my mates were doing better than me, I might be a little bit envious, but as I have got older, I love to see actors cracking on and succeeding. The same goes for writers.

  Max Beesley

  Acting, Actors, Littles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.

  Liya Kebede

  Mom, Effort, Advice

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• There is no such thing as the worst gang because they're all pretty bad. It is very difficult to classify them in terms of who is worse than the other because they all have pretty bad things associated with them.

  Ross Kemp

  Gang, Worst, Term

  Interview with Bertan Budak, uk.askmen.com.

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• If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, youre going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.

  Steve Southerland

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• I prefer it when the conductor follows me. It is more difficult to work with a conductor who does not listen - even if I understand that sometimes it makes sense when one person is ruling everything. But for bel canto, I have to have a conductor who listens and supports me.

  Anna Netrebko

  Support, Doe, Sometimes

  "Anna Netrebko: quotable quotes". Interview with Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.

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• The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

  Hakeem Jeffries

  Political, Definitions, Helpful

  "Interview With Hakeem Jeffries, Candidate for New York’s 8th Congressional District". Interview with Andrew Wilkes, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• As the economy unravels, as hundreds of millions of Americans confront the fact that things will not get better, life for those targeted by this culture of hate will become increasingly difficult. Rational debate will prove useless.

  Chris Hedges

  Hate, Get Better, Culture

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• It is not action or effort that we must surrender; it is self-will, and this is terribly difficult. You must do your best constantly, yet never allow yourself to become involved in whether things work out the way you want.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Self, Work Out, Effort

  Eknath Easwaran (1979). “Like a Thousand Suns: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume II”, p.371, Nilgiri Press

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• We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other. One encounters in any ordinary day far more real difficulty than one confronts in the most “intellectual” piece of work. Why is it believed that poetry, prose, painting, music should be less than we are? Why does music, why does poetry have to address us in simplified terms, when if such simplification were applied to a description of our own inner selves we would find it demeaning?

  Geoffrey Hill

  Real, Self, Ordinary Days

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• The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.

  Fanny Kemble

  Husband, Children, Heart

  Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.6, University of Georgia Press

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• Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Brother, Children

  Attributed in "The Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" by Henry Parry Liddon, (pp. 147-148), 1868.

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• England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Responsibility, Home

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly.
  [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est;
  Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

  Horace

  Heaven, Strive, Folly

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• It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

  George Eliot

  Trying, Distrust

  Robert Coles, George Eliot, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope (2007). “Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life”, p.18, Modern Library

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• It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

  George Eliot

  Love, Easy, All Things

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.515

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• A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Littles, Circumstances

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Long, Training, Negative

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle (1842). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels: From the German of Goethe”, p.84

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• It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Silence, Silence Is

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• All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Trying, Wanted

  Hermann Hesse (2012). “Demian”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Art, Simple, Needs

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• In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.

  Jonathan Swift

  Air, Age, May

  Jonathan Swift (2004). “A Modest Proposal and Other Prose”, p.61, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

  Aldous Huxley

  Interesting, Advertising, Modern

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• It is difficult to fly without wings.

  Plautus

  Wings

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