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• I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sarcastic, Teacher, Children

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• The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over me than I took over it.

  Myfanwy Pavelic

  Progress, Shapes, Messy

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• I'm sorry for losing my temper following the race, but after a day or two of looking back at the race it's easy to realize that it's just not that big of a deal compared with what the people of the Gulf Coast are still going through.

  Robby Gordon

  Sorry, Two, Race

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• Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made.

  Rico Lebrun

  Drawing, Vision, Acquiescence

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• To be simple is not always as easy as it seems.

  Ferdinand Hodler

  Simple, Simplicity, Seems

  "Die Kunst Ferdinand Hodlers". Book by Ewald: Bender, 1923.

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• I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be an artist. You have to add a new page to history; otherwise you are not making a contribution. But making history is not easy.

  Liu Dan

  Artist, History, Historical

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• Life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Thinking, Choices, Suffering

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• Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

  Jonathan Messinger

  Awards, Years, Bonsai

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• It's easy to be disciplined when you have no freedoms.

  Dick Couch

  Dick Couch (2012). “Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger”, p.151, Penguin

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• It is not easy to stop brown envelope because journalists are part of the society

  Dele Momodu

  Envelopes, Brown, Journalist

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• The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Simple, Enough

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• Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Phrases, Tests, Usage

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• It's easy to stand back, but to move forward and take a chance, that takes a little more guts, a little more courage.

  Venus Williams

  Moving, Littles, Chance

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• I've since come to understand the reason school lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child's will. It is not easy to disconnect children's wills, to disconnect them from their own experiences of the world in preparation for the lives of painful employment they will have to endure.

  Derrick Jensen

  Children, School, Years

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.102, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• It is not easy to be a Witch, a bender, a shaper, one of the Wise; nor is it safe, comfortable, laid back, mellow, uplifting, or a guarantee of Peace of mind. It requires openness, vulnerability, courage and work. It gives no answers, only tasks to be done and questions to consider....It functions in those deeper ways of knowing which our culture has denied and for which we hunger.

  Starhawk

  Uplifting, Wise, Knowing

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• Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.

  Carl Sagan

  Doe, Preference, Conform

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Architecture, Forget, Enjoy

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• It will be just as easy for nations to get along in a republic of the world as it is for you to get along in the republic of the United States. Now, if Kansas and Colorado have a quarrel over a watershed they don't call out the national guard in each state and go to war over it. They bring suit in the Supreme Court and abide by its decision. There isn't a reason in the world why we can't do that internationally.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Rivers, Kansas

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1945, Volume 1". Book by Harry S. Truman, Best Books on, 1961.

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• When you look at the accomplishments of accomplished people and you say, “Boy, that must have been really hard,” ... that was probably easy. And conversely, when you look at something that looks easy, that was probably hard. And so you’re never going to know which is which until you actually go and do it.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Boys, People, Accomplishment

  "The World's Online Marketplace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• Never settle for that which is easy and comfortable or the necessity of seeking that which is difficult and uncomfortable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Never Settle, Action, Settling

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• The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

  Enya

  Writing, Emotional, Moments

  "From the Heart". You Magazine Interview with Maureen Paton, January 08, 2006.

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• Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable.

  Paul G. Stoltz

  Inspirational, Facts, Persevere

  Paul G. Stoltz (1997). “Adversity Quotient: Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities”, p.277, John Wiley & Sons

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• Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work. But more than anything, because linking sources is such an easy thing to do, and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I've detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don't link to primary sources, I just don't trust you.

  Ben Goldacre

  Pain, Motivation, Dubious

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• Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own. You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with a game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for instruments.

  George Eliot

  Passion, Men, Games

  "Felix Holt, the Radical". Book by George Eliot. Chapter 29, 1866.

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• One of the greatest sins in any story is false suspense. The kind of 'suspense' that disintegrates the moment you give your reader one second to think about it. And it's an easy trap to fall into, so watch carefully for it. If your story hinges on the question, 'Will Superman be pushed so far in his battle against Lex Luthor that he'll have to kill him?', or if your big cliffhanger moment is, 'Wow, is Spider-Man really dead this time?', then I understand Food Lion is hiring.

  Mark Waid

  Book, Fall, Men

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