#difficult

"There's not a lot of other stuff I admire about his content, but there's something about Howard Stern and his perseverance in a very difficult industry. He does tickle me in certain ways with humor."

"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good."

"A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before."

"Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life."

"As comedians, we are all laughing because life is so horrible. Life is so difficult, and I cope with it by making jokes about absolutely everything."

"It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance."

"I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this."

"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort."

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."

"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

"The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you."

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."

"Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult."

"Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man. The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times."

"To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult."

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

"Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting."

"We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up."