Hard Thing Quotes

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski

Simple, Hard, Artist

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
William Barclay

Hard, Endurance, Turn

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Russell Lowell

Hard, Begin, Creating

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
Lillian Smith

Woman, Hard, Giving

I am prepared to discuss the things that I believe we need to do not just to raise the debt limit. Raising the debt limit is the easiest thing. That's one vote away. The hard thing is to show the world we are serious about putting our spending in order so we can show people we'll able to pay our bills down the road.
Marco Rubio

Hard, Down, Serious

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.
Maurice Sendak

Trust, Time, Hard

I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it's multifaceted.
Sienna Miller

Love, Hard, Define

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.
Sienna Miller

Nature, Human, Hard

I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.
Halle Berry

Someone, Hard, Trying

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.
Jane Campion

Hard, Film, Quite

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.
Todd Solondz

Life, Live, Hard

Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other.
Cynthia Nixon

Hard, Deal, Half

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.
Paul Feig

Good, Hard, Matter

It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the first day of the shoot - generally without having had any rehearsal - and present a character. It's really baffling; it's incredibly hard to know how to begin, to approach it, other than just thinking about it.
Emily Mortimer

Character, Hard, Thinking

I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.
Samantha Morton

Age, Forward, Moving

The hard thing about 'The Saint' was that my character was supposed to die, but then they reshot the ending based on tests and she lives. I created the character based on her dying - she would never have been as innocent otherwise. So I didn't have high expectations for that film.
Elisabeth Shue

Character, Hard, Die

To fill the shoes of rock 'n' roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.
Kelly Osbourne

Family, Rock, Hard

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.
Skeet Ulrich

Hard, Deal, Directors

Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
Victoria Pratt

Family, Hard, Together

There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is a hard thing to track, particularly in countries that deny easy and free access and don't have free and open societies.
David Kay

Good, Long, Hard

Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
Darren Aronofsky

Important, Hard, Characters

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
John Oates

Music, Business, Hard

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.
Alison Bechdel

Age, Character, Someone

I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.
Bill Joy

Hard, Become, Effort

It's... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It's the worst thing you'll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again.
Michael Bay

Live, Mind, Someone

It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.
Ben E. King

Hard, Down, Two

To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.
Dean Norris

In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down.
Roone Arledge

Money, Tomorrow, Hard

Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have great chemistry outside of work. It's just something that sparks on screen or doesn't.
Tricia Helfer

Work, Great, Hard

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.
Dee Snider

Hard, Parent, Reasonable

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