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• The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.

  Kiki Smith

  Remember, Hardest, Complicity

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• I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite.

  M. H. Abrams

  Thinking, Editing, Finals

  "An Interview with M. H. Abrams by Sharon Hamilton". People's Education, March 10, 2007.

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• To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Simplicity, World, Hardest

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't. You can't attain it. There are terrible forms of professional humor, the humorists' humor. That can be awful. It depresses me because it is artificial. You can't always be humorous, but a professional humorist must. That is a sad phenomenon.

  Heinrich Böll

  Depressing, Humorous, Awful

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• The hardest thing is to make this little space for yourself where you can think and not get inundated with other stuff coming in.

  Catherine Yass

  Thinking, Space, Littles

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• Of all the things in sports, getting a sack is one of the hardest things to do. It's like a last-second, game-winning shot in the NBA. A guy hits the last-second shot, and the fans scream. For us (defensive ends), the sack is everything. It's hard to get there. But once you do, there's nothing like it.

  Dwight Freeney

  Sports, Winning, Nba

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• One of the most crucial but hardest things to do as part of turning your life around is to get rid of all the negative people around you and replace them with people who encourage you instead.

  Neal Boortz

  People, Negative, Things To Do

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• Forcing yourself to shiver is one of the hardest things on your muscles and isometrics.

  Daryl Hannah

  Muscles, Shiver, Hardest

  "SENSE8: Daryl Hannah Reflects on Performing in the Wachowskis’ Latest Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2015.

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• It's the hardest thing in the world to be in a business where it's all about people accepting you, and you have a desperate need to be accepted, and yet you live in a, you operate in a society that's now very unaccepting.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  People, Needs, World

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Infertility is this huge emotional roller coaster. If you want in your heart more than anything to have a baby, it's the hardest thing you will ever go through physically, emotionally, and financially.

  Cindy Margolis

  Baby, Heart, Emotional

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• The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.

  Criss Jami

  Thinking, Insanity, Care

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.15, Criss Jami

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• Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it's also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest things to throw away.

  Colleen Hoover

  Beautiful, Love Is, World

  Colleen Hoover (2012). “Point of Retreat”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

  Amy Chua

  Thinking, Chinese, Balance

  "Is strict parenting better for children?". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

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• The hardest thing for everyone, for the writer, for the director and certainly for the actors, is not to panic when they're doing a certain line for the tenth time because everything ceases to be funny after it's been repeated.

  Ivan Reitman

  Directors, Actors, Lines

  Source: collider.com

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• The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

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• One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.

  Al Yankovic

  Years, Careers, Three

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I asked for help, which is the hardest thing in the world.

  Marcia Wallace

  World, Helping, Hardest

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• The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn't lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.

  Howard Stringer

  New York, Connections, Lost

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• England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.

  Kevin Kilbane

  Home, Leaving, England

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• The reality is that my stepfather was like a father to me and watching him die from a sudden heart attack was one of the hardest things I have ever gone through.

  Roger Clemens

  Father, Heart, Reality

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• That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Elements, Surprise, Lost

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• Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.

  Bryan Cranston

  Player, Actors, Periods

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 2, 2003.

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• As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

  Colin Baker

  Thinking, Focus, Attention

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.

  John Sayles

  Character, Acting, Tough

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• But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

  Ellen Barkin

  Issues, Film, Intimacy

  "Ellen Barkin Talks “Another Happy Day”: 'I’ve been waiting for a part this good for my entire career.'" by Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2011.

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