Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.
My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.
I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.
the hardest thing in life is to accept the facts that are hard to accept and to accept the things you can't accept.
I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.
I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.
The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.
It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.
Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.
I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be as hard as looking after a child.
Once I decide I want to do something, I just work really hard and I do it, and I just know it's going to work. I think really positively.
When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
I'm a bit of a chocolate snob, actually, since I used to work at a chocolate shop in England when I was really young. And since then, it's been hard for me to eat cheap chocolate.
Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.
My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.
It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.
We see very, very high rates of C-sections, Cesarean sections, in India. Lots of reasons for it, high levels of malnutrition have meant that women have very small pelvic areas often, so if they have larger babies, it's very hard to deliver.
I think that in many ways, gays are behind women and behind blacks, as far as rights go. But I always say, if you know one of us, it's hard to hate us.
It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.
