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We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

I have occasionally - if ever I do interviews that are difficult or nerve-wracking - I take my wife's dog tags and have them in my pocket because it's a very quick way to realize that what I'm doing is not that important. It's not really worth getting stressed about because it's not, you know, war.

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.

Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.

Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

I can't watch most of my work. Once I come on screen, all I can think of is 'What am I doing with my hands?' or 'Why did I lean that way?' or 'What's that look on my face?' It's too difficult to not focus on evaluating my acting.

When I was at BMW and Aston Martin, I realized how difficult and how many resources it takes to create a car - let alone a car company.

In simple terms, I realised that food is the most fundamental need for a person. In difficult economic times, people's priorities change, and they might be willing to do something that secures for them the lowest possible weekly food bill.

It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry.

I think that there's a real sense in which pregnancy should be something that you do with your doctor, but I think that for a lot of women the time you have with your doctors is limited and it can be difficult to get all of the answers to your questions.

I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.

Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild.

I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.

As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music.

Doris Day started performing at a young age, had a tough road to success, and once she achieved it delivered the goods 100 percent and brilliantly, always making difficult work look as easy as breathing.

In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

It's difficult because we tend to overrate the pain of failure. We fear it too much. That's research that emerges from psychology. We think it's going to be worse than it really is. And, I think, as we get a bit older, really after we leave school or college, we quickly stop experimenting.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

For a long time, I've had to hustle. If a film role is obviously great, then it's been difficult for me to get a look-in.

I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.

Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.

I am very passionate about what I do; I give it 200 percent, and I don't think it will ever change. But I've realised that, as an actor, you have to give it your best and let it go. That's the most difficult journey, and it comes with time.

With 'Survivor' - I didn't get any sleep, there was no food, we had to boil our water... plus, it was physically taxing during the day. That's what made it more difficult than three-a-day practices.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult.

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis.

In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies that are lobbying the legislators or whether it's the other way around.

Women are more difficult to caricature than men - partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature.

I've always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream.

One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic. Every child is different and unique. What works with one may not work with another.

I like to think that Harry Cohn is having a somewhat difficult time sleeping in his grave thinking of a chick with a white shag rug taking over his space.

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

I found it really difficult when teachers talked down to me.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.

When my father died, I had millions of people supporting me in a very, very difficult time. I have received so much from this country. I realize that we're defined in life not by what we get from this world but by what we have to offer it, and I know that I have a lot to offer this country, and I'm serious about devoting my life to it.

Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.

I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that he'll travel with me if it's appropriate, if I'm not going overseas.

The thing with me, I can't talk about my work. I find it very difficult.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.

I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

I'm just about the movies; I enjoy the dexterity of actors in action movies and the choreography side of things. You've just got to be a different person to be a professional fighter. I train with professional fighters, so I know what it takes. It's a very difficult profession, probably harder then the acting profession.

Americans rightly, but sometimes excessively, celebrate every person in uniform as a hero, but seldom honor the difficult and often dangerous work being done day after day by members of our diplomatic corps. Warriors capture the popular imagination more easily than peacemakers.

I have always been attracted to difficult work. There really doesn't seem much point in looking for the easy life as an actor. I would simply get bored.

It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy.

Without there being some national strategy, it is difficult for educators to know what kinds of engineers or technicians to produce and for potential students to know what professions to study for.

Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.

I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else.

There are so many different kinds of relationships, so it's sort of difficult to define what is considered normal.

We try to buy as much American-made shirts as we can and stuff to sell. It's very difficult to cover every base as much as our country has been saturated with foreign products.

I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success

Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.

Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.

The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff.

With celebrity being our new religion, it's increasingly difficult to start up on your own. Talented young designers are more likely to either go and work for celebrity brands or huge fashion houses than ever before.

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.

America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.

It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Every generation has to ask difficult questions about what does it mean to follow Jesus.

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.

When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed by government manipulations and money-printing, it's impossible to make any predictions.

You go from Olympic wrestling into pro wrestling, and it's a very difficult transition, but if you make it, you can earn a great living while at the same time giving amateur wrestling a lot of exposure by being on TV every week. Fans know where you came from.

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.

I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where jazz was considered the best thing ever, so I had to leave it be for a long time. But now I'm rediscovering it. I'm approaching jazz in a different way.

It's such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it's just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

Supposedly I'm impossible to talk to. But it's honestly not me being difficult. Sometimes you just don't have a lot to say.

I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.

Having the Stitch character, the villain that becomes a hero, coming from outer space, it took a very difficult and complex story and put it into a simpler, kinder time.

I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.

I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.

Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.