#hard thing

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#blade #creating #easier #grass #hard

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. ↗

— William Barclay

#bear #endurance #glory #hard #hard thing

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#because #character #give #gray #gray hair

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#believing #child #get #hard #hard thing

The hard thing about 'The Saint' was that my character was supposed to die, but then they reshot the ending based on tests and she lives. I created the character based on her dying - she would never have been as innocent otherwise. So I didn't have high expectations for that film. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#based #been #character #created #die

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery. ↗

— Janet Erskine Stuart

#first #got #hard #hard thing #interest

In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#bank #bank account #brought #dollars #down

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#hard #hard thing #human #human nature #monogamy

Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#alienate #audience #because #controversial #deal

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#different #different ways #evaluate #hard #hard thing