Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in its essence, it's soul-destroying. It tends to turn people into control freaks.
It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
Something is going to have to give because, if it doesn't, not only will we get Jacob Rees-Mogg as our prime minister, we will get a devastating hard Brexit which will cause huge damage to our economy for generations to come. And I am not prepared to sit by any longer and put up with this nonsense.
The newspapers had described me as the Jagger of the Aga. It wasn't hard living up to the reputation.
I like learning. I've been studying Japanese for years now, but it's really hard.
It's hard to act with just your jaw.
You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.
Running back-to-back races requires a certain tactical prudence. Going too hard in any one race might jeopardize your performance in another. Maintaining proper hydration and caloric equilibrium also becomes increasingly critical.
It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
I was fortunate to work a lot, and I worked hard, and I was very devoted to that, and then I earned this jewel box of a life that I felt completely entitled to.
I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
It's very hard to talk about Palestine to Jewish people - they see me as a betrayer.
I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed.
I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it's a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven't flinched.
God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.
My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.
It's very hard to juggle a science fair project as well as your schoolwork.
