Hard Quotes
I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.
I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.
It's hard to be happy for someone when you know deep down they'd kill you if they had the chance.
It's hard dealing with day to day disappointments and feeling like you can't find success. Especially when your best friend is Pixar.
Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are.
I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.
Writing an op-ed feels like I'm taking the SAT. It's so hard. It feels like homework. And if it feels like homework, it just doesn't get done.
I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.
Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.
Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o’clock in the morning with a meat cleaver and a hard-on can’t be much fun.
It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.
It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.
Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.
When you translate the American writers who are best with dialogue into German - someone like Elmore Leonard, or Tom Wolfe, who's also quite good with dialogue. It's very hard to translate them well.
'Insane Farting Corpse' is a really hard movie to do a Q&A for. The audience is still kind of reeling and being like, "I don't know what to ask."
I find it hard to imagine how someone listens to my stuff, or views what I do, or me, or anything.
Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet... it's so hard to let them go... to forget... to move ahead.
The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the mark I'm trying to hit, however I don't feel I have much control over it.
Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind.
Motherhood. It was hard to get lost in anything else completely when children were 3 years old.
I have an I.Q. of 100 plus a little bit. I have to work real hard to get things when I read.
Forest of Arden was great for me. I couldn't finish outside the top five there no matter how hard I tried!
Choose to make up for what you lack in innate ability with discipline, hard work, and good habits. Become a creature of champion habits.
Earning success is hard. The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous.
It's hard to stay flexible if you don't stretch. I think if you train the right way you'll be flexible. There are people that don't appreciate the value of stretching. I think it's very important.
Meddling, smug, stupid little..." "She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me!" "No. You do not understand. I could not have done it because I can not read or write.
Dead people I could handle. They were usually beyond hysteria. This was the people-left behind part. The hard part.
You don't have to think really hard to get the joke. I think humor in general appeals to all people.
The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered.
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
We have a lot of problems in this country. It's going to put pressure on the budget and we're going to have to make some hard decisions. But the decisions we make are to prioritize the middle class.
Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.
Heaven'll be our last move!-No baggage, no luggage, no hard journey, no packing, no long travel! It may be a long way, but it may be closer than you think!
We work very, very hard to find that fine line where location is meaningful enough to be interesting to an advertiser but not so intrusive that it interrupts the creative flow of the show.
I do think economic and social anxiety is the number one issue. And I'm pretty confident Hillary Clinton will be really riding that train pretty hard.
Obamacare is woven into the fabric of health care. It's very hard to just rip it out, as Donald Trump sort of acknowledged with The Wall Street Journal.
I think Donald Trump is going to find it very hard to do the kind of massive change he wants.
It's very hard to find an evangelical person under 45, let alone on some of the Christian college campuses, who has any tolerance for Donald Trump.
I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.
I do think John Kerry has tried awfully hard to work with Russia and others to have a lasting, significant cease-fire.