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• I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

  John Green

  Girl, Hero, Home

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.304, A&C Black

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• One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

  Jeff Bridges

  Father, Doors, Feet

  "Jeff Bridges Abides". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November, 2011.

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• The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Hardest, Fronts

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• To make films like 'X-Men' work commercially - and also have some class - is one of the hardest things there is to do. I want to be seen to be able to cross lots of genres and still be 'fair dinkum,' as we say in Australia, which means genuine and true and, well, unique.

  Hugh Jackman

  Mean, Unique, Men

  "Hugh Jackman's Essential Truth". parade.com. April 26, 2009.

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• The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.

  Stephen King

  Feelings, Important, Size

  "The Body". Book by Stephen King, 1982.

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• The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

  Donald Knuth

  Sleep, Night, Machines

  "Donald Knuth on The Art of Computer Programming". Innovations Interview, www.informit.com. 1996.

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• The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Children, Taken, Long

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• Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

  Ricki Lake

  Motherhood, Being A Mom, Hardest

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• Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  Journal, 10 Oct. 1922

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• I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

  Bruno Mars

  How You Feel, Down And, Hardest

  Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

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• The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.

  Victor Garber

  Laughing, Clown, Hardest

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, People, Literature

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• Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.

  Mariah Carey

  Pregnancy, Wonderful, Easy

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  The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

  Dave Chappelle

  Inspirational, Be True To Yourself, Being True

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• The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'

  Kelly Clarkson

  Being Yourself, Stars, Business

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• Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

  Michael Crichton

  Book, Writing, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.

  Sloane Crosley

  Home, Writing, Night

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• The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

  Celine Dion

  Balance, Needs, Looks

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• The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.479, Princeton University Press

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• It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

  Morgan Freeman

  Actors, Hardest, Stillness

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• Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

  Gary Oldman

  Inspirational, Children, Recovery

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• The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

  Al Pacino

  Crazy, Nice, People

  Esquire, January 2003.

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• Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.

  Matthew Perry

  Order, Addiction, Trying

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• Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.

  Joanna Russ

  Writing, Adventure, Men

  Joanna Russ (2005). “The Two of Them”, p.8, Wesleyan University Press

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• Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Telling The Truth, Hardest

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.107, Penguin

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