"My tendency to internalize emotion is probably why I'm an actor. I'm comfortable performing angrily but have such difficulty expressing anger in my life."
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"It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one."
"Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in."
"There is possibility in every difficulty."
"Between the difficulties, one hides the opportunity"
"All difficulties are easy when they are known."
"Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil)."
"One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent."
"The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates."
"One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place."
"That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight."
"To the stars through difficulties."
"All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow."
"It is the things we think we know - because they are so elementary or because they surround us - that often present the greatest difficulties when we are actually challenged to explain them."
"The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles."
"Which is strange - I've always thought of myself as someone who writes out of difficulty. And I did do that, but I came out on the side of light more often than not."
"I'm trained to difficulties; difficulties can't be eliminated from life."
"What has sustained me even in the most grim moments is the knowledge that I am a member of a tried and tested family which has triumphed over many difficulties."
"Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome."
"I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing."