Hard Times Quotes - Page 12

• A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Book, Writing

  Interview with Michael Shapiro, www.sfgate.com. May 28, 2011.

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• I'm always doubting my work, even when people are kind enough to say good things. I still have a hard time believing I've written some books, let alone that they've actually done pretty well.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Believe, Book, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I never had any urge or desire to do like a big spectacular movie with thousands and thousands of extras. I'd rather watch paint drying. But put me in a room with three people having a hard time, like a character situation, and then you're into a really intense portraiture kind of concept.

  Mike Figgis

  Character, People, Desire

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or discussing them with directors, I find that’s my biggest challenge. Different words mean different things to people.

  Amy Adams

  Mean, Emotional, People

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• A big reason why we were able to and have been able to continue to succeed is that we had a very intense work ethic, right from the beginning. There was a do-or-die attitude toward the work. It wasn't seen as a little "club." It was like, "This is your life." We would spend hours and hours rehearsing and endlessly rewriting. We took it very seriously right off the bat. And we were also extremely critical of each other, which was another thing that was unique. A lot of comedy ensembles have a hard time being critical of each other, because they don't want to hurt each other's feelings.

  Michael Showalter

  Hurt, Attitude, Unique

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

  Ken Burns

  Understanding, Jazz, Having A Hard Time

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• It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

  George Burns

  Funny, Sex, Dirty

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• I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Thinking, Evil, Zombie

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• People are going through tough times. I want to say to them, "Live your joy." I know I can tell them that because I went through a lot of hard times. I had a choice of either succumbing to the hard times or figuring it out.

  Bonnie St. John

  People, Choices, Tough Times

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• I like it when you reach into a vending machine to grab your candy bar, and that flap goes up to block you from reaching up? That's a good invention. Before that, it was hard times for the vending machine owners. "Yeah, what candy bar are you getting?" "That one, and every one on the bottom row!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Block, Humor

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• My mom's been having a hard time lately. She just found out that she has to have both of her breasts removed - if she's ever going to be good at golf.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Mom, Humor

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• Even a small amount of perspective can change our lives. Because even the smallest amount of perspective can change how we are able to navigate hard times.

  Andy Andrews

  Perspective, Able, Smallest

  "The Noticer Returns | An Interview With Andy Andrews". Interview with Matt Ham, mattham.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Hard times always uncover the basic goodness and evil of the day.

  Zig Ziglar

  Evil, Goodness, Hard

  Source: www.centerforfaithandwork.com

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• I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

  Andrew McMahon

  Feels, Connecting, Puzzles

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have a hard time believing athletes are overpriced. If an owner is losing money, give it up. It's a business. I have trouble figuring out why owners would stay in if they're losing money.

  Reggie Jackson

  Sports, Believe, Athlete

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• RyanAir have been getting a hard time because they've launched a £7 flight to New York. Although as always with RyanAir it does land slightly outside of New York. In Dublin.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, New York, Humor

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• In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras. I got to fully experience and appreciate both the tragedy of Somalia and the beauty of it.

  K'naan

  Beautiful, War, Appreciate

  "K’naan: Straight Outta Mogadishu". Interview with Eamon Kircher-Allen, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• Every morning, read seriously and reverently a portion of the Holy Scriptures, and acquaint yourselves with the history and doctrine thereof. It is a book full of light and wisdom, will make you wise to eternal life, and furnish you with directions and principles to guide and order your life safely and prudently.

  Matthew Hale

  Wise, Morning, Book

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• Dreams have a hard time surviving when confronted with reality.

  Mathias Malzieu

  Dream, Reality, Surviving

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• You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.

  Edward de Bono

  God, Religious, Heart

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• I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.

  Eddie Vedder

  Trying, Littles, Exhausted

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Of all our basic virtues, courage is the one that helps us to live exactly the way we want and provides the psychological fuel we need to create, take risks, help others, and face hard times... Courageous action is humanity at its finest.

  Robert Biswas-Diener

  Helping Others, Humanity, Risk

  Robert Biswas-Diener (2012). “The Courage Quotient: How Science Can Make You Braver”, p.148, John Wiley & Sons

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• I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

  Debbie Meyer

  Years, Practice, Next Day

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• If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?

  Sufjan Stevens

  Real, Ordinary World, Morality

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 31, 2011.

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• I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that. I have a hard time just listening for pleasure. I'm much less about instinct, and more of a utilitarian listener.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Listening, Hearing

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2006.

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