It's not like they just open the gate to Hollywood and off you go - you earn your stripes. I worked ferociously hard even just to get an agent.
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.
I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.
I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
If you look at anyone at the top of their profession, there has to be something a little bit different. You have to be driven, cold, hard and mentally tough as iron.
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things.
God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals
I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.
I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily.
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.
I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.
Being in The Fall isn't like being in another group. It isn't a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.
I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old.
I've always learned when you win a game, no matter what the stats look like, you have to enjoy the victories because they are hard to come by.
I think what I bring to the table is a lot of heart, a lot of energy, and somebody that works hard. Somebody who hates to lose.
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.
Sitting beside the pool is fine for two weeks, but after that I think it'd be quite hard to live with - so I need to keep racing.
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
