I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have---and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.
It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.
I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.
To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard to put into words.
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.
Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
I'd like to think that most of what I do is self-evident if you're listening to it or seeing it. But I don't mind the fact that it's hard to describe.
Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value.
I tried so hard not to be compared, so I choose to be different and it came to the point that I don't even recognized myself.
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
It's hard to build a brand, competitively, and tell people what you do as well.
It's hard enough as a kid these days to feel normal and just try to fit in. To be a diabetic is just a dramatic thing to go through.
Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.
Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.
Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.
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 was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.
