The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.
It was not easy to go into a subway in 1955 at eight o'clock in the morning smelling nice and hanging on the rails with white make-up. I could see people nudging each other saying, 'What is that?'
Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.
All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody.
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to.
I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.
Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.
When I have to do something fast, I wear the most unflattering rubber pants over my pants and a big easy sweater. I can get on my knees in the garden in whatever condition, and when I'm done, I can take it off, get in the car, and drive to the office. It's the most practical thing.
The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that.
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
When I was a kid, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, the answer was easy - the next Lisa Leslie.
Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
It's easy for the board to say, 'Well, add makeover shows.' The No. 1 show for women in the United States is 'The Walking Dead.' That's not a makeover show.
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.
The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!
I tell people: walk around for one month and write down three problems in your life every day. At first it's easy - you got stuck in traffic, you missed your alarm - but by the end of the month you're looking really hard to get your 90 problems. The most common things on your list are now billion-dollar businesses.
Once the makeup is on, it is easy to enter the character's frame of mind.
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
Changing course is never easy.
I'm very easy going and low maintenance when it comes to my hair.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
It's hard to kill a city, but easy to kill a company.
People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.
It's not the easiest life in the world, but then no life is easy.
Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.
It's never easy for me to say goodbye. I get attached to people very quickly, and with 'Raw Stars,' my connection is even more special. I'm in love with their music and perhaps their biggest fan. I think every artiste on the show is mind-blowing.
We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea that there is a kind of dividing line in the world, and that on the one side is the good, and on the other side the bad, why, all I can say is that you have a wrong notion of things.
After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.
It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
It turned out it was really easy to create commercial stock footage.
There is no easy way to ask serious-minded men and women who hold high office, and who have matters of state on their mind, 'Do you mind if I take a quick selfie?'