Difficult Quotes - Page 35

• It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring.

  Claire Danes

  Self, People, Judging

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

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• Tony Scott was one of the best directors Ive ever worked with, and I was devastated when I heard about his death. He was a great guy with great energy. But this is a difficult business, and peoples lives are sometimes difficult.

  Christian Slater

  Guy, Energy, Directors

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• The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.

  Dominic Cooper

  Country, Good Life, Iraq

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• I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.

  James McAvoy

  Thinking, World, Most Romantic

  "Into the Blue". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challenge. But, you want to take up that challenge and try your best.

  Asa Butterfield

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.

  Felicity Kendal

  Opposites, People, Lazy

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• If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover.

  Maria Menounos

  Country, South Carolina, Roles

  Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.

  Horace

  Men, Accomplish

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• Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Witty, Profound, Sublime

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.151

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• Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to persuade, others can persuade without being able to reason; some dive so deep that they descend into darkness, and others soar so high that they give us no light; and some, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us only that which is cut and dried. We should labor, therefore, to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Cutting, Light

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.307

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• Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

  Samuel Johnson

  Practice, Superstitions, Conviction

  Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.143

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• I think second place is always the most difficult one. It's not a nice feeling.

  Bill Vaughan

  Nice, Thinking, Feelings

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• Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.

  Tracey Gold

  Husband, Taken, Gone

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• The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Hard Work, Skills

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'

  Lulu

  Emotional, Self, Normal

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• Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

  Michael Douglas

  Energy, Tolls, Chemotherapy

  "Michael Douglas: My cancer battle". www.mirror.co.uk. September 22, 2010.

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• I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Thinking, Insecurity, Adults

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• I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open my mouth and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.' They want to put you in a box in LA, that's how they tend to do it there, so if you don't fit in that box, it makes it more difficult.

  Ruth Negga

  Thinking, Mouths, Want

  "Ethiopian-Irish Actress Ruth Negga Believes Her Heritage Is Negatively Affecting Her Career" by Emmanuel Akitobi, www.indiewire.com. September 03, 2012.

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• Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.

  Hans Blix

  War, Democracy, Occupation

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• Yesterday, Attorney General John Ashcroft had surgery to remove his gall bladder. Doctors say the surgery was difficult because Ashcroft refused to take his clothes off.

  Conan O'Brien

  Doctors, Clothes, Yesterday

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• Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling.

  Shahid Kapoor

  Beautiful, Attachment, Giving

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• It is difficult to get organic food at most restaurants, so when possible, eat at home. When not, do your best.

  Suzanne Somers

  Home, Restaurants, Organic Food

  Suzanne Somers (2013). “I'm Too Young for This!: The Natural Hormone Solution to Enjoy Perimenopause”, p.95, Harmony

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• All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.

  Bill Nighy

  Jobs, Gambling, Sick

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• How can we teach our children to be responsible beyond themselves and care for other human beings' welfare and for the welfare of the planet and all that it contains? It's a difficult lesson to convey, when, more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Prince William Sound is still experiencing the damaging effects.

  Gloria Reuben

  Children, Years, Care

  "A Louisiana Mother’s Day Wish" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.

  Matt Bomer

  Growing Up, Artist, Past

  "Matt Bomer Tells the Personal Story Behind His Heartbreaking ‘Normal Heart’ Performance". Interview with Kevin Fallon, www.thedailybeast.com. May 21, 2014.

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