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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while. ↗

— Mark Spitz

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For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do. ↗

— David Cronenberg

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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward. ↗

— Amelia Earhart

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I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals. ↗

— Emma Thompson

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Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve. ↗

— Julie Walters

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Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity. ↗

— Greg Lake

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Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

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To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by birth. ↗

— Melissa Leo

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It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible. ↗

— Jennie Churchill

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