All Quotes

It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
‐‐ Hamilton Jordan

It's hard to maintain a life when you do a play. You feel you have to pretend to go through a normal day, knowing that in the evening you'll be doing this.
‐‐ Chiwetel Ejiofor

It's hard to make a clear line between what is political business and what is state business.
‐‐ Steve Bullock

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.
‐‐ John Travolta

It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
‐‐ Sam Rockwell

It's hard to make a living as a novelist. My first novel 'Tapping the Source' made quite a splash in Hollywood, and people started asking if I wanted to write scripts. I quickly realized I could make a lot more money that way.
‐‐ Kem Nunn

It's hard to make a living at independent films, at least in my experience. It can be hard to be really creatively fulfilled in some television. Between the two, I get a bit of both.
‐‐ Julianne Nicholson

It's hard to make a living doing documentaries. Frankly, if it takes you five years to do a film, and that's the only film you're doing, you're in trouble.
‐‐ Alex Gibney

It's hard to make a living in this business. Unions aren't as strong as they used to be. For a journeyman actor - someone who doesn't have a famous name but has consistent work in theater or film or TV - it has become harder to get through, harder to raise a family.
‐‐ Annette Bening

It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
‐‐ Cass McCombs

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.
‐‐ Tim O'Reilly

It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful.
‐‐ Marguerite Moreau

It's hard to make something feel like it needs to exist.
‐‐ Jake Barton

It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists.
‐‐ Harvey Weinstein

It's hard to measure up to 'Battlestar' - it's hard not to measure things against it.
‐‐ Jamie Bamber

It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.
‐‐ Randy Johnson

It's hard to name a person who is unpopular who has influence.
‐‐ Guy Kawasaki

It's hard to not make a mistake at Darlington.
‐‐ Tony Stewart

It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.
‐‐ Edie Falco

It's hard to overestimate how much the perception of the quality of the V.C. firm you're with matters - the signal it sends to other V.C.s, to potential employees, to customers, to the tech press. It's like where you went to college.
‐‐ Stewart Butterfield

It's hard to pass up a pole vault opportunity here in Des Moines. The crowd was so great when I was at the mall and I was pumped up and I thought technically I was on and I figured where else to open up my outdoor season than here.
‐‐ Jenn Suhr

It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.
‐‐ Robert Redford

It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.
‐‐ Siri Hustvedt

It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
‐‐ Owen Hart

It's hard to pin down what it means to be an evangelical today. It's been diluted quite a bit. It is a powerful voting bloc, no question, but they're liberal as well as conservative - and they're made of Latinos, blacks, whites.
‐‐ Franklin Graham

It's hard to pinpoint why all of a sudden a group of Australian films will be doing well and why they perhaps are better made than some from the past.
‐‐ Guy Pearce

It's hard to play basketball when nothing is inside of you.
‐‐ Ben McLemore

It's hard to point to any single inspiration for 'iZombie' since, in actuality, it's made up from elements inspired by all kinds of different thing all mashed up together.
‐‐ Chris Roberson

It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
‐‐ Brene Brown

It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an artist. That sense of creativity. That thing that makes them tick is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good.
‐‐ Tommy Mottola

It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.
‐‐ Nicholas Negroponte

It's hard to prove yourself when the substance isn't there in certain roles.
‐‐ Travis Fimmel

It's hard to put into words, shaking hands with the most powerful man in the world.
‐‐ Buddy Rice

It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer - people who get it don't live long enough.
‐‐ Randy Pausch

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.
‐‐ John Grisham

It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
‐‐ Al Yankovic

It's hard to really compare new love and old love.
‐‐ Hugh Hefner

It's hard to really get that excited about movies. Think about it like this: how many good comedy movies come out a year? Maybe one or two? And then, in those movies, what are the chances that there's a character that I'm the best fit to play? It's really small!
‐‐ Aziz Ansari

It's hard to reconcile my personal beliefs with an entire institution like the Church or the Republicans. Or with people within those political persuasions who have such different ideologies but confess the same things I confess spiritually.
‐‐ Sufjan Stevens

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.
‐‐ Carol Kane

It's hard to remember a time when I wasn't writing.
‐‐ Kacey Musgraves

It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.
‐‐ Andra Day

It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
‐‐ Dakota Fanning

It's hard to run away from who you are, and when your taste is formed is a very important thing.
‐‐ James Gray

It's hard to say a favorite song of my father's. I listen to all his stuff - a lot of the old stuff before the '70s.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
‐‐ Padgett Powell

It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology.
‐‐ Paul Graham

It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it moving, but it's a certain element that'll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that's the separation of it all.
‐‐ Snoop Dogg