We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
I think that when you first read material or you first read a script or story and know you might be playing a part, it's important not to see yourself because it should be a challenge enough that it doesn't come easy.
So the mask was just really easy, I've got to be honest. And it was great actually because it really allowed you to get into the character a little bit more maybe than without it, if that makes sense.
It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
Sisyphus, you know, had an easy life.
Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.
For an actor to create a different look for every film is not easy.
If my life was a song it would be, 'It ain't that easy being green' from Sesame Street.
The KXL pipeline would make it easy and cost effective for oil producers in Canada to transport oil to the Gulf of Mexico where it could be shipped to customers - not just in the United States - but around the world.
Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That's what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not.
Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.
The thing I've learned most about poverty is how expensive it is to be poor. It's super easy to pay rent every month if you earn enough to pay rent and have a decent job. It's super hard to pay rent if you need a coupon from the state and then need to go find an apartment that will accept that coupon and only that coupon.
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.
Men can be men and still get excited about other men kicking a ball around and they're never mocked, whereas it's easy for women to take mocking on board, to be belittled. Because we're used to it.
It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.
Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.
I'm easy. Put me in an interesting location with good people and I'm there.
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
Changing from biochemistry to law was easy because I was rubbish in the laboratory. I could never decide how much to put in a test tube because I'm not very good at maths.
Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
We don't feel pressure of, 'Let's make this really raunchy.' It's more about making a good story, which is 10 times harder. The raunchy stuff's really easy for us.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
If it were easy, it would have no value.
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
It can be easy to buy into anything. I would lose focus if I went with that attitude of wanting to be famous.
Publishers love to compartmentalize, and 'Second Chance' was not an easy novel to define.
It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.
Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
