Hard Quotes

I'd always thought that acting was, like, you had to work really hard, you had to change the way you walked, you talked, and all of that. But that's not acting. That's shmacting.

It's very hard to imagine the phrase "consumer society" used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.

It's always hard to analyze what your own style is.

I will find her." "And when you do?" Roger asked. "I will make her mine," the warrior answered in a hard, determined voice. "She will be mine." The vow was made.

I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets.

But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart.

It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove ever after to get their attention.

I've never done so much bloody crying in my life. I was always moaning about how hard it was when we were shooting, how awful I felt.

What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.

Trust can be a hard lesson; hope still more difficult.

I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.

I do understand the perspective of die-hard fans who complain that we don't play the same as the record, but at the same time I think fans are getting an amazing deal.

As hard as I've tried, I don't know how not to be adorable.

It's so hard, because everyone's got a camera-phone, and everyone wants to get their picture on the blogs. So they'll send anything that they have to the blogs. So you don't really get any privacy.

I love theater, I would love to do a play, but it's hard to beat.

People who haven't done commercials, don't appreciate how hard it is.

I don't really set personal goals for home runs or anything like that. However many I hit, I hit. If I'm making consistent contact and hitting the ball hard, then I will hit home runs.

D.C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically, and I was dyslexic.

The whole point of being happy is not feeling like you have a job. I'm sure there are days where you're at your job and you're like, "Oh my god, this is hard."

There are decent people that I know who don't know how to treat their partner. It's been built up so hard and so high that people are afraid.

Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy faith that bounces off unchipped.

Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.

I'm typing so f-ing hard I might break my f-ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!!

Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get.

Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.

We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others.

Once people learn, it is hard to forget and go back.

Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard.

people were just out of control! . . . They've all got cell phones stuck to their ears and yet I've never seen such distance between people trying so hard to be close.

Hard. Fast. Deep. When I'm done you'll know you're mine.

Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth.

It's insane how quickly everything's changed. I always feel like I'm running hard to catch up.

I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do. So, it's usually not too, too hard.

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.

It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing.

The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.

You know, it's hard to say what's going to happen in the future. But, if I stay healthy, I think I'll probably play until I'm about 40.

I'm excited to win a pole at Atlanta, one of the tracks you look forward to qualifying at every single year, and really happy to beat Ryan Newman, who is hard to beat here.

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.

No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.

In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that there's every reason to hope.

A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.

When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

They [her parents] still highly encourage me to come home ... but, it's every time I go home I can tell they're disappointed in me, and that for me is kind of hard.