I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.
I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.
Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
I am married to the most amazing, generous and beautiful human being and it has been hard on him because from the outside if you look at it it's just all about me.
I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.
I have amazing parents. They had worked hard all their lives for me, and when I started to make money, I wanted to be able to take care of them.
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
As far as the girls in my grade, it was always kind of an on-and-off thing. When all this came up, it was kind of hard. My guy friends and my family friends have been so amazing and supportive.
Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.
If you have something you do that's unique, you just end up in situations. Your art can take you to places without you working too hard to force something to happen.
Being a bad guy was easy, being a hero was hard.
As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.
So," he asked. "How's death?" "Hard," she said. "It just keeps going.
and it is hard to let go, to imagine alternatives, but you are bold with unknowing, you are ready to explore.
But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.
A scholar must not only be capable of hard, often totally resultless work - he must actually relish it.
Success has nothing to do with what we accomplish for ourselves, but the amount of hard works we put forward to others
Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner.
