Hardest Thing Quotes - Page 9

• The hardest thing in the world to play is something close to myself.

  Chris Bauer

  Play, World, Hardest

  Source: collider.com

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• The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

  Carl Maria von Weber

  Suffering, Ears, Fool

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• Lots of people still live with fears about anything. It can be lots of different things. One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.

  Scott Bakula

  Issues, People, Different

  "Scott Bakula Talks Behind The Candelabra, Working with Steven Soderbergh, Why the Film Landed at HBO, Basmati Blues, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 26, 2013.

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• One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Writing, Way, Hardest

  "Maestro of Broadway". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.

  Patrick deWitt

  World, Said, Hardest

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.131, Granta Books

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• My mother's father was from Sligo, and he used to say it was the hardest thing in the world to find a man alive in Dublin who wasn't in the GPO during the Easter Rising. Twenty brave men marched into that post office, he said, and thirty thousand marched out.

  Lawrence Block

  Mother, Easter, Father

  Lawrence Block (2011). “Out On The Cutting Edge”, p.72, Hachette UK

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• That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Cynical, Indifferent, Hardest

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• I think you've got to be honest with yourself at what you're good at. That's the hardest thing to do.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Thinking, Honest, Things To Do

  "Jerry Bruckheimer Predicts U.S. Film Will No Longer Dominate Internationally". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 27, 2015.

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• An attitudinal sea change. I think that's the hardest one to fix. Presidential directives, bills, provisions can all be rescinded, repealed, amended, but attitudes linger. The hardest thing is going to be to try to reverse an attitude, a bunker mentality that equates secrecy with either security or heightened efficiency and that regards transparency as an invitation to mischief and trespass. This default position of operating in the shadows is going to be somewhat appealing to whomever inherits office.

  Ted Gup

  Attitude, Thinking, Sea

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The hardest thing is never what you think it's going to be.

  Jennifer Westfeldt

  Thinking, Hardest

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The hardest thing is writing a recommendation for someone we know.

  Kin Hubbard

  Writing, Recommendations, Hardest

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• On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Stars, Loneliness, Reality

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• The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.

  Elle Fanning

  Ballet, Hardest

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• That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Running, Feet, Three

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.

  Dan Chaon

  Block, Thinking, Plot

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

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• The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.

  Jonathan Bennett

  Loss, Long, Parent

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• One of the hardest things about my job is that there kind of is no one rulebook that applies to all situations.

  Ethan Hawke

  Jobs, Kind, Situation

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• The hardest thing in a novel is time. You've got [a line like] "two weeks later, he woke up with a headache," and you've got to add up that entire two weeks and what the date is and whether it works. That kind of stuff drives me crazy and if I don't have it exactly right, I can't move forward because I don't feel confident.

  T.C. Boyle

  Crazy, Moving, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.

  Valerie June

  Believe, Teaching, Play

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

  May Sarton

  Compassion, Suffering, World

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.185, Open Road Media

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• It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.

  Ann Goldstein

  Standards, Hardest, Translate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of the hardest things to do when you launch a channel is find a voice.

  David Zaslav

  Voice, Hardest, Things To Do

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• Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

  Felicity Jones

  Mother, Being Yourself, Trying

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

  David Longstreth

  Simple, Vocabulary, Esoteric

  "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.

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• Probably the hardest thing to do was the beginning of the movie ["300"], I think, when we were in Sparta and all that - just getting in the groove.

  Zack Snyder

  Thinking, Sparta, Groove

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