It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written.
Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder.
My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.
Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.
It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough.
'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.
I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.
Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.
If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players.
You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.
Johnny Wong: Most things go in and out of style - that is with the exception of war of course.
It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.
I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.
The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.
Being the evil undead wasn't fun anymore. For one thing, it was increasingly hard to get a library card.
Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.
Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'
