Harder Quotes - Page 12

• The Internet and all its lures are much, much harder than anything I've ever encountered. If you're writing on a computer, the very instrument you're writing on is already tainted by the world out there in all its permutations.

  Dani Shapiro

  Writing, World, Computer

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I haven't written a whole lot of nonfiction, but what I have written leads me to believe that it's an entirely different muscle. The ongoing paradox is that sometimes it's harder to get to the emotional truth of something when you only have the facts at your disposal.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Believe, Emotional, Different

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• I just want to repeat that there's nothing that we've proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm.

  Barack Obama

  Want, Repeats, Firearms

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• If you come from money and you become an addict, you go to the Betty Ford Clinic, you get treatment. If you're living on the street and you're an addict, it's much harder to find your way out.

  Jess Walter

  Way, Treatment, Clinic

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do talk and think a lot about the legacy before me. I feel like if I didn't know that people had been in Montgomery sixty years ago trying to do similar things that I'm trying to do, with a lot less, with fewer resources, with less security, with less encouragement, with less opportunity - if I didn't know that, then I think doing what I do would be much, much harder.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Encouragement, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The hardest bits of my book to read were the easiest bits to write because they were the most immediate. Probably because I had never stopped thinking about them on some level. Those bits I was just channelling and those were the most exciting writing days. The bits I found harder were the bits that happen in between, you know, the rest of living. There were whole years, whole houses, that I just got rid of.

  Damian Barr

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The minute we think we went hard, go harder. We gotta work.

  DJ Khaled

  Thinking, Minutes, Hard

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• I am trying to get folks outside the hip-hop culture to understand why, despite the negatives, young people find hope and refuge in hip-hop. I'm hoping that young people immersed in the culture will work harder to capitalize on the possibilities for great social change that hip-hop represents as a national unified cultural youth movement.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Hard Work, People, Hip Hop

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• With time environmental issues got much more complicated. It is pretty easy, if you know what you are doing, to stop a company from pouring poison into a lake where kids swim. It is much harder to address all the myriad greenhouse gases emitted by different sources - from petrochemical refineries to hundreds of millions of peasants cutting down trees for their incredibly inefficient cook stoves.

  Denis Hayes

  Kids, Cutting, Lakes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's much harder, much more work to be your own artist, and it's hard for me to just want to do one thing. I love doing my own music, but I really have to get into a groove with it, which has been difficult over the last few years because I've had so much great work coming in.

  Gail Ann Dorsey

  Artist, Years, Things I Love

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow down in one breath.

  William Finnegan

  Blow, Looks, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exist.

  Garth Greenwell

  Reflection, Thinking, Patterns

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Integrity, Hard Work, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Dream, Wind, Energy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Leaving my first agent was both my best business decision and my worst business decision. It depends on how I want to look at my career because of opportunities that may have come had I stayed with him and because of the opportunities that did come because I had to fight harder for roles.

  Carmen Ejogo

  Fighting, Opportunity, Careers

  Carmen Ejogo ‘Sparkle’ Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. August 14, 2012.

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• have a much harder time writing stories than novels. I need the expansiveness of a novel and the propulsive energy it provides. When I think about scene - and when I teach scene writing - I'm thinking about questions. What questions are raised by a scene? What questions are answered? What questions persist from scene to scene to scene?

  Edan Lepucki

  Writing, Thinking, Energy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Writing songs does not get any easier, and that might be because I am harder on myself than I was twenty years ago. Hopefully, as we grow older and change, there are fresh topics, new perspectives, or at least there should be.

  Dean Wareham

  Song, Writing, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction.

  Leigh Newman

  Writing, Fiction, Writing Fiction

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• I can't work any harder. I can't do any more. I am literally just blown away and humbled by the volunteers and how hard they're working. I think they've got a sense that they're going to be part of something bigger than themselves.

  John Kasich

  Thinking, Volunteer, Bigger

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• I think that one of the other lessons about what happened here is that open carry laws, even though many police, sheriff departments in Colorado support them, make it much harder for law enforcement to do their jobs.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Jobs, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.

  Pam Houston

  Moving, Attention, Imagine

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People really don't understand the technology they're using. It's been talked about a lot. Apple products in particular are designed in such a way that's harder to get in and understand what processes are going on.

  Charlie Jane Anders

  Technology, Apples, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's been a greater awareness among people, especially geeks, that the laws of physics don't allow that much wiggle room in terms of things like faster-than-light travel, time travel, sending people to other planets. It's harder than we were aware a few decades ago. I think there used to be this widespread imagination, this idea that we'd eventually just hop in a rocket and go to Mars.

  Charlie Jane Anders

  Thinking, Light, Law

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.

  T Cooper

  Thinking, Land, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

  Kate Zambreno

  Criticism, Nonfiction, Mainstream

  Source: therumpus.net

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