Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.
You work hard, and you'll rise. But, if you've got any foolish notions, just knock them on the head and forget them.
I came from the South with a mother who was hard working, so I love going to work every day.
You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.
We've got guys who aren't wrapping guys up... No matter how hard you hit them, you've still got to wrap them up.
With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.
It's hard making people sitting in hotel rooms interesting.
It is hard work composing a song for a film and showing it to makers: 50% of the tune remains the same, and the remaining 50% is changed to suit the script.
I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.
I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.
Dolly Parton... I love being around that woman! I worked really hard to keep up with her.
A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.
When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.
I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived.
Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.
Rich folks always talk hard times.
'Between Shades of Gray' is a story of astonishing force. I feel grateful for a writer like Ruta Sepetys who bravely tells the hard story of what happens to the innocent when world leaders and their minions choose hate and oppression. Beautiful and unforgettable.
It's such a tough business. And once people see you a certain way, it's really hard for them to change their minds about you.
When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you.
I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.
It's important to understand that you have to dedicate time to your sponsors, to have relationships with the people and the media, but it is also hard when you are first coming up and your primary focus is on tennis.
Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.
Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
The really hard moment was when my dad said, 'Honey, if an agent is telling you to lose weight, then maybe you should lose weight.' I was 15, standing in our living room, having a moment I will never forget. I never had a parent tell me to lose weight, and it hurt.
In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
I think that's something people need to convey because you see all these celebrity moms out there, and the perception is they can do it all, but they have sooo much help. And it's kind of an unfair image to project for many women, because it is really hard, and if you have help, you should indicate you have help.
That's a hard question, because I started skating when I was three, so I don't really remember life before it, and I don't know what it is like not to work hard at something.
But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.
It's not coincidental that America's vigorous recovery in the early 1980s was led by a president who worked hard to unshackle growth in the private sector.
I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics - especially if you're there for a long time.
I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.
It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.
So it wasn't actually that bad, it took a couple of weeks to sort of get used to uh, you know, standing around and pretending to have ice shoot out of your hand, but once you got used to that it uh, it was actually not that hard.
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
