Hardest Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• 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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• One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

  Ken Follett

  People, Giving, Stuff

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• Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Jobs, Hardest Job, Generations

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• It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

  Abel Ferrara

  Laughing, Looks, Things To Do

  "Abel Ferrara On “go Go Tales”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. October 8.

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• The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.

  James Daly

  Business, Children, Years

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• If foundations made of stone can turn to dust, then the hardest hearts of steel can turn to rust.

  Shania Twain

  Heart, Dust, Infidelity

  Song: Home Ain't Where His Heart Is, Album: The Woman in Me

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• The hardest thing I think I've ever had to do to tell you, the woman I love, that I'm having a baby by a woman that I barely know.

  Usher

  Baby, Thinking, Infidelity

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• The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.

  Tom Petty

  Heart, Advice, Waiting

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• I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

  Rachel Johnson

  Writing, Two, Done

  Rachel Johnson (2009). “In a Good Place: A Novel”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Hollywood, Actors, Being The Best

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the radio or something but until they get several impressions of who you are - from whatever it is, whether TV or a live show, I feel like they don't quite connect the dots.

  Charles Kelley

  Song, Thinking, Artist

  "Q & A: Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum". Interview with Jerry Fink, lasvegassun.com. April 22, 2009.

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• Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Jobs, Teaching, Hardest Job

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.

  Jenny Lawson

  Writing, Anxiety, Trying

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.

  Graham Nelson

  Writing, Different, Resolution

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• I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.

  Cat Power

  Thinking, People, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.

  Adrianne Palicki

  Roles, Fruition, Actors

  "FNL's Adrianne Palicki on learning to be a badass for Red Dawn and Wonder Woman". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2012.

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• It's our job to get into the hardest-to-see places and bring back the best footage - we have the best footage of North Korea ever shot. If that's a stunt, then I'll keep on doing stunts until I die.

  Shane Smith

  Jobs, Korea, Shots

  "Vice's New Envelope-Pushing Docu-Series Premieres on HBO Tonight" by Allison P.Davis, www.elle.com. April 5, 2013.

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• Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.

  Brian Sandoval

  Unemployment, Nevada, Rate

  "Brian Sandoval RNC speech". www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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