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• I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.

  Ridley Scott

  Nice, People, Laughing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life preserver, which sinks them. Nobody can drown in the ocean of reality who voluntarily gives herself up to the experience. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

  Henry Miller

  Fashion, Ocean, Reality

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• I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink.

  Henry Miller

  Fashion, Thinking, Knowing

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.29, New Directions Publishing

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• Anyone who has wrestled knows that it's the hardest thing in the world to do. Anyone who says something else is the hardest thing has never wrestled. That's what I have found. ... You don't wrestle because it's easy, you wrestle because it's hard. I don't do astrophysics because it's easy, I do it because it's hard. And I juxtapose the two in my mind, body, and soul all the time.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Two, Found You, Soul

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• The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Ego, Shells, Hardest

  D.T. Suzuki (2011). “Essays in Zen Buddhism”, p.11, Souvenir Press

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• The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

  Josh Billings

  Age, Growing, Hardest

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• Volleyball was the hardest thing Ive ever had to do.

  Liam Hemsworth

  Volleyball, Hardest

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• I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

  Charles Grodin

  People, Actors, Ratios

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• It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way.

  Marlon Brando

  World, Littles, Way

  FaceBook post by Marlon Brando from Jan 26, 2012

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• innocence is the hardest thing to prove.

  Martha Albrand

  Innocence, Hardest, Prove

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• The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen years, and the expectations of making it out of my town were slim to none.

  Thomas Jones

  Mother, Coal Miners, Virginia

  "Actor Thomas Q. Jones: Making it out of a small town and a positive perspective on failure". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.

  Benjamin Stone

  Self, Goal, Empowering

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• For a lot of women, one of the hardest things about leadership is the desire to be liked by everyone. That's often inconsistent with leadership. It's certainly inconsistent with taking positions on very controversial issues.

  Sarah Weddington

  Leadership, Issues, Desire

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• I think the hardest thing in life is when we see those we love turn down a wrong path, and when no entreaty will induce them to retrace their steps.

  Rosa Nouchette Carey

  Thinking, Things In Life, Steps

  Rosa Nouchette Carey (1894). “Lover Or Friend”

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• One of the hardest things for a person with autism to do is believe in themselves. But autistics have every right to be as proud as anyone.

  Stuart Duncan

  Believe, Autism, Proud

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• In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.

  Tina Fey

  Pretending, Hardest

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• For instance, in group therapy, I'll have people stand up, show off, give a speech about themselves as though they've just died and have to give a eulogy. Even with this explicit permission - even an order - to say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

  Nancy Friday

  Nice, Clothes, Order

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• I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

  Richard Armitage

  Crazy, Thinking, Play

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• I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

  Dave Chappelle

  Way, Showing Up, Awful

  "Dave Chappelle: 'I Wasn't Crazy'" by Bootie Cosgrove-Mather, www.cbsnews.com. February 3, 2006.

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• Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

  Steve Earle

  Writing, Want, Hardest

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• Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.

  Jeff Bridges

  Doors, Actors, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Lying, Doe, Haiti

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

  Nick Frost

  Drama, People, Sound

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• Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Courage, Decision, World

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• Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral." A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.

  Billy Wilder

  Morning, Rain, Writing

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