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

~Edgar Degas

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'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.

~Edgar Wright

Topics: About Bad Bad Thing Bit Box Difficult Little Little Bit Me More Movie Necessarily Pilgrim Put Scott Something Thing

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It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

~Edie Falco

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Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

~Edmond Halley

Topics: Any Appear Determining Difficult Distance Earth Effected Even Hard Labour More Much Near Problem Scarce Sun Than Truth Very Will Without

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I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

~Edmund Hillary

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Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: About Also Big Chances Dangerous Depressed Difficult Expedition Good Humor Important Important Things Laugh Make Most Planning Regarded Sense Sense Of Humor Situation Someone Success Tension The Most Important Things Who You

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To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.

~Edmund Morgan

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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Appearance Between Detect Difference Difficult Eccentricity Encounter Evidence First Historical History Interpretation Large Makes Needed New Often Originality Radically Segment Studies Time

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You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

~Edouard Manet

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Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

~Edsger Dijkstra

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