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Being on set is difficult for the writer. Your job is done, and you have to step back and hand it over to the director.
John Niven
You
Director
Job
Difficult
Back
Writer
Step
Over
Hand
Done
Being
Your
Set
It's very difficult to innovate without requiring people to do something different. And whenever you require people to do something different, you're talking about change.
John P. Kotter
You
Change
People
Difficult
Innovate
About
Something
Talking
Without
Very
Whenever
Different
Require
Requiring
I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
John Poindexter
Today
Election
Difficult
Think
Factor
Discourse
Years
Subject
Very
Any
Controversial
Public
Public Discourse
Certainly
Present
Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.
John Pomfret
You
People
Complicated
Difficult
Tell
More
Open
Overseas
Get
Hearts
Information
Much
Working
I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.
John Prine
Happiness
Life
Death
You
Sadness
Feeling
Difficult
Guess
Folks
Inside
See
Some
About
Glad
Had
Part
Most
Always
Up
Than
Person
Get
Going
Just
Process
Again
Then
Realizing
Your
Differently
And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.
John R. Allen
Day
Relationship
Police
Single
Difficult
Every
Our
Soldiers
Defines
Some
Troops
Operations
Single Day
Real
Conduct
Very
Real Relationship
Afghan
Situations
Afghanistan
Them
Across
Engagement
Serving
Every Single Day
It might be a selfish choice, but I find it quite difficult to design for individuals and prefer the distance of larger schemes. It's the same reason why, as a designer, I don't do wedding dresses.
John Rocha
Selfish
Design
Difficult
Distance
Find
Dresses
Wedding
Schemes
Individuals
Same
Quite
Prefer
Might
Choice
Reason
Why
Larger
Designer
Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.
John Roos
Together
People
Diplomacy
Difficult
Deal
Issues
Working
Fundamentally
Bringing
We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a strenuous spiritual effort.
John Updike
Art
Spiritual
Respect
Difficult
Enough
Drawn
Tell
Puritan
Takes
Because
Still
Effort
Artists
Us
Who
Strenuous
It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.
John Walters
Dangerous
Problems
Three
Become
Past
Difficult
Our
Borders
More
Over
Real
Smuggle
Years
Real Problems
Substances
Much
Creating
Across
You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.
John Wells
You
Wonderful
Complicated
Difficult
Performance
Particularly
Material
Requires
Actor
I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.
John Wells
Family
Humor
Power
Difficult
Else
Kind
About
Someone
None
Always
Lot
Up
Very
Expense
Grew
Barbed
Painless
That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve.
Johnny Ball
Me
You
Experience
Inspire
School
Achieve
Down
Difficult
Late
Books
Once
Bad
Never
Head
Drove
Know
Read
Repair
Get
Children
Them
Really
Your
Start
It's difficult, because when you're a popular singer who makes money, you're basically a race horse. And that's how you're treated by the people around you.
Johnny Colt
You
People
Money
Difficult
Horse
Singer
Because
Around
Makes
How
Race
Who
Popular
Treated
Basically
By The People
For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look.
Johnny Depp
Me
Yourself
Hide
Try
Difficult
Way
Slightly
Something
More
Like
Look
Because
Always
Close
Just
Just Because
Stand
Exposing
Play
Being 'Johnny' was almost like an out of body experience. I thought he was just a character that I'd created and could quite easily step away from, but it was much more difficult than that.
Johnny Vegas
Character
Experience
Thought
Difficult
Easily
Out
More
Johnny
Could
He
Step
Almost
Like
Than
Quite
Just
Being
Much
Created
Body
Away
When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.
Johnny Weir
Time
You
Difficult
Back
Everyone
Say
Athlete
Attacking
Take
Come
Judging
Without
Off
Want
To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that it probably won't keep on that way.
Joko Beck
Life
Time
Degree
Difficult
Worry
Way
Find
Some
Well
Oppressive
Perplexing
Goes
May
Even
Keep
What I do is not curing cancer or rocket science or lead mining - anything tremendously difficult or world changing. I understand where I am in the cosmic order of things, and I'm OK with it.
Jon Hamm
Science
World
Cancer
Rocket Science
Difficult
Changing
Tremendously
OK
Mining
Cosmic
Lead
Understand
Am
Rocket
Curing
Where
Order
Anything
Things
Being No. 1 on any call sheet is difficult. Being No. 1 on an episodic, hour-long drama is really hard.
Jon Hamm
Difficult
Drama
Call
Sheet
Any
Being
Really
Episodic
Hard
Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will.
Jon Lee Anderson
Life
War
Good
Will
Build
Become
Difficult
Back
Insecure
Civil
Civil War
Vortex
Know
Terribly
How
Up
America
Bring
Brink
You can't be afraid of the problem. Don't be afraid of failure; don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make sure you learn from each step; iterate, and stay as efficient as possible without being paralyzed by a difficult situation.
Jon Oringer
Failure
You
Problem
Mistakes
Situation
Difficult
Possible
Stay
Paralyzed
Step
Make
Learn
Sure
Without
Efficient
Afraid
Being
Each
It's always difficult to work out on location, away from home, but that's the actor's life. You go where the work is.
Jon Tenney
Life
Work
Home
You
Difficult
Location
Out
Always
Go
Where
Work Out
Actor
Away
As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.
Jon Tester
Day
Every Day
People
Sometimes
Difficult
Every
Those
Come
Make
Upset
Decisions
Public
Washington
Servant
Difficult Decisions
Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.
Jon Voight
Democracy
Gift
Greatest Gift
Difficult
Extraordinary
Danger
Daring
Risk
Adventure
Greatest
Full
It is difficult to master the skill of scoring runs from a 90mph delivery that is dug into your armpit or is fizzing past your nose.
Jonathan Agnew
Master
Past
Difficult
Runs
Delivery
Dug
Scoring
Nose
Skill
Your
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