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I had a lot of difficulty growing up in a society where everything is very closed-minded, especially with beauty.

~Barbie Ferreira

Topics: Beauty Closed-Minded Difficulty Everything Growing Growing Up Had Lot Society Up Very Where

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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.

~Barry Eisler

Topics: Adapt Book Different Different Way Difficulty Face Fundamental Limitations Most Novelists Own Realizing Screenplay Storytelling Trying Way

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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Desires Difficulty Govern Men Moderate More Nothing Than Tongues Words

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Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the word 'delicious' and its synonyms.

~Bee Wilson

Topics: About Critics Delicious Difficulty Eating Restaurant Struggle Without Word Writing

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Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.

~Ben Carson

Topics: Believe Come Defining Derive Difficulty Ethical Ethics Fittest God Lot Might More Our People Really Right Right And Wrong Sense Survival Those Us Very Whatsoever Where Who Word Wrong

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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

~Beverly Cleary

Topics: Afraid Circle Could Difficulty Even First First Grade Grade Had Loving Miserable Overcome Patience Read Reading Refused Second Teacher Though Time

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It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem like they've had it easier. But the thing we forget is that it is all relative, and each person's experience is uniquely their own, so that the worst thing they may be going through is truly the worst thing for them... it's just about having compassion.

~Bianca Kajlich

Topics: About Compassion Difficulty Each Easier Easy Experience Forget Going Had Having Just Life Like Look May Other Own People Person Relative Seem Strife Them Thing Through Truly Uniquely Who Worst Worst Thing You Your

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Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

~Bill Bradley

Topics: Achieving Against Athletes Difficulty Great Important Important Role Metaphor Models Obstacles Odds Overcoming Role Role Models Sports Times

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There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Actually Could Difficult Difficulty Enjoy Forms If I Could Interesting Mean Penetrate Perhaps Poetry Some Want

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I think 'accessible' just means that the reader can walk into the poem without difficulty. The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry.

~Billy Collins

Topics: Accessible Difficulty Entry Just Means Poem Put Reader Someone Think Walk Without I Think

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