#difficult

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have. ↗

— Amy Tan

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It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#feel #fuss #i #like #looking

We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#difficult #duran #get #out #pushed

I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me. ↗

— Jerry Hall

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Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most. ↗

— Philippe Halsman

#asked #asking #before #camera #celebrated

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

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The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point. ↗

— Barbara Olson

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