Every relationship I’ve been in becomes long-distance because of work. It’s never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.

I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I’m stretching for something new and difficult that I haven’t done before.

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

Good times are a reminder and a reward for dealing with the difficult and challenging times we all go through. The trick is to celebrate the good times in advance of the difficult times. Always...

We’re producing a movie now, ‘The Onion’ Movie, and it’s very difficult for me to be on the set. If I’m not right in the trenches, it’s very difficult for me to watch another director,...

Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you’re doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it...

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it’s a painful, difficult search within.

The attitude of the people proves that not only do we want to, but that we can succeed in pulling our country out of the difficult position it finds itself in. The banking system of...

It’s more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship....

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

History’s most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals. We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring...

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It’s always changing.

One of the defining things about my career on camera is I like to play different characters. That gets difficult to do. People don’t trust you to do something different. In animation, it’s all about...

I put complains aside and replace each of them with trials and to my surprise, some things I see as difficult were not so before! I conclude that “Success resides behind the curtains of complains;...

Getting started is the most difficult thing to do; once you file it out, they rest of the journey is as soft as the straw. Be a good beginner.

It’s very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it’s fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring.

To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.

I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I...

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind...

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At...

My father was a very difficult man.

Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.

It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA – 30 to 50 letters in length – and it’s a...

Sometimes it is difficult to different between leaders and misleaders. However, with the measurement of true service to mankind, the evidence is very clear!

Good character going bad is like a beast escaping it’s cage; it will be hard to capture it again!

I think it’s always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

The transition was difficult. It’s hard to stop something that you’ve enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started...

If you are going to do a film about the South Pole, the chances are that you will film it in Hawaii! Whatever is most difficult, you will get to do it.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

The one reader I’m trying to please as I write is me, and I’m pretty difficult to please.

I decided to do the easy task of changing situations and conditions by being a hero, than staying back to do the difficult task of changing people by being just a man.

It’s a big part of what we do – we test our movies extensively. I’m always there myself. It’s sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it’s a version of the movie that’s not working...

However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

It will be a difficult couple of days. It’s difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.

Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don’t have to think about. Brushing my teeth...

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.

A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument.

It’s not surprising so many people end up with credit-card debts. Saving for your retirement and buying a house are difficult things, and we don’t educate people about them at all.

But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.