I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, 'What do I want? What are my desires?'

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

The harder [role] the better. Definitely. When somebody turns around and says, "She can't do that," then that's the one I want to do.

I grew up black in segregated America, where it was hard to find an open door. It's harder now for young blacks to find a closed one.

I have a little half-Asian butt, and the more I work out, the more I try to get it bigger, it's just going to get flatter and harder.

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.

Too many families are working incredibly hard, but their wages never seem to go up and their health care bills only get harder to pay.

I'm not grateful for depression, but it honestly made me work harder and gave me the drive that I have to succeed and to make it work.

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.

It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't go. The paparazzi follow you.

The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.

For everyday diners in Manhattan, cracking the waiting list at Nobu is said to be harder than getting courtside tickets for the Knicks.

Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.

I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life.

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.

I don't think there's so much difference between making documentaries and feature films. I think it's even harder to make documentaries.

Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to get nude pics of you from your computer by not putting nude pics of yourself on the computer.

I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.

You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it - it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.

It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.

My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.

I really like raw connections, and so I've always had a harder time in politics because I feel there's a lot of veneer around everything.

I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

When I was about 15, I learnt that training hard doesn't get easier, you just learn to push harder. That's a powerful mentality to master.

Competition can never be eliminated from this industry. There is nothing wrong with it. It keeps you on your toes, making you work harder.

I shoot swimsuits and lingerie all the time, so I want to make sure I'm in the best shape. It makes me want to work out harder than usual.

I like being the underdog so they don't expect what's going to happen. It pushes me to work harder and do the things I'm not doing better.

Work harder than everyone, be patient, and just know that if you're going to do something on your own, you're gonna have to feel some pain.

Don't make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, 'I can't get married till I get promoted to your dream job.'

Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.

I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more helpless as a caregiver.

Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

Women, whatever their profession, tend to have a harder time feeling ready for a job, even though in most cases they are more than prepared.

I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

I get very caught up in the day-to-day and immersed in the scenes as they unfold. It's harder for me, as I'm filming, to see the larger story.

People who are lying are, understandably, more worried about being believed, so they work harder - too hard, as it were - at being believable.

I never quit. The times when I have quit in the past because I couldn't face trying harder have stayed with me, and the guilt is not worth it.

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

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