Hardest Quotes - Page 7

• The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.

  David Allen

  Splits, Take Control, Productive

  Twitter post from May 30, 2009

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• Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

  Marlo Thomas

  Blow, Parent, Losing

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• I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.

  Steven Moffat

  Writing, Self, Laughing

  "The new Doctor Who: Steven Moffat and Matt Smith". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 16, 2010.

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• Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

  Allison Pearson

  Mother, Laughter, Balls

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• It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.

  Aziz Ansari

  People, Laughing, Hours

  "Q+A: Aziz Ansari, Overachiever". Interview with Adam K. Raymond, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of that burden off your shoulders.

  Jim Cramer

  Money, Night, Mad

  "Mad Money". Book by Jim Cramer, www.today.com. March 14, 2005.

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• What's often in your heart is the hardest to reach.

  George Harrison

  Love, Heart

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• Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and that's a lot of hours spent thinking about a single project. I simply have to love the idea. I'll go through dozens of workable ideas until I find the one that lights my fire.

  Kristin Hannah

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

  Carol Leifer

  Girl, Father, Acceptance

  "When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win". Book by Carol Leifer, www.today.com. March 2009.

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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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• It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

  Will Cuppy

  People, Faults, Easy

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• The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Men, Ideas, Done

  H. P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Key to Theosophy”, p.78, BookRix

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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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• Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

  Dylan McDermott

  Years, Comedy, Yeah

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• You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.

  Chuck D

  Masters, Manage

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2016

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• I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

  Chaim Potok

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

  Jon Ronson

  Writing, Trying, Stories

  "The complexities of the psychopath test: A Q&A with Jon Ronson". Interview with Ben Lillie, blog.ted.com. August 15, 2012.

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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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• I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.

  Shelley Berkley

  Reputation, Congress, Persons

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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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• No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.

  Raymond Arroyo

  Language, English Language

  "The Power of 'No'” by Raymond J. Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2012.

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• You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A painter can paint by himself. A writer can write by himself. But an actor needs a group, and the hardest thing about expanding your ability and your craft is to have a group to do it with that is of a caliber where you can grow even more.

  Anne Archer

  Writing, Practice, Musician

  "Anne Archer and Michelle Danner Come Together For A New Play". Interview with Jamie Painter Young, www.backstage.com. October 12, 2011.

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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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• Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

  Stockard Channing

  Disappointment, Heartbreaking, Casting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  Feet, Squares, Splits

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