Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.
Charles Durning
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CAROLYN JONES It was a very competitive regional. We fought hard for everything tonight. Nothing came easy for us.
BARBARA GIBSON I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
VICTORIA PRATT Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies
BOB HOPE She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy...
PATRICIA BRIGGS I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.
TRENT REZNOR I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was...
CASEY AFFLECK Those that were not their durning my time of struggle, don't expect to be their durning my success. ...
WILL SMITH Comedy is far more difficult, as it involves improvisation and impromptu acting, and as an actor, th...
DIVYANKA TRIPATHI Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.
L.M. MONTGOMERY I think the first period came a little bit too easy for them.
ADOLPH BRINK Nobody's like a Champ Bailey or a Charles Woodson that came out with the hype like that.
DARRELL JACKSON I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
GABBY DOUGLAS Because of the narration, it's pretty easy to follow. If you miss something through the acting or th...
DEBBIE MCCREIGHT It's sad because it came back to haunt me this year, ... I came back from a wrist injury and a shoul...
DONALD ALLEN I thought our kids came out the second half and played at that other energy level. We made a lot of ...
RICK STANSBURY We came out, played hard and executed our offense real well. We got easy shots. I just real proud of...
LEWIS WITCHER And Then They Came for Me
ANNE FRANK We made the Gophers work for it. I don't think it came that easy to them.
AMY RULEY They came out hard and aggressive.
AMANDA THOMPSON I came out to California to live with my mom in Orange County for a while, and then I came up to Hol...
JAMIE ANNE ALLMAN Mo came in, did the job, and shut the door. They came at us pretty hard.
CRAIG SIMPSON Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old ...
PETER FONDA Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.
GIANNI VERSACE For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.
PATTY HEARST When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
BEAU MIRCHOFF And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that...
BIBLE The girls came out and got us some easy points on turnovers.
DALE ELFMAN All I can say is it was not easy. I had to practice really hard to get my shot back. I just came out...
KAYLA HOOPER Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
AALIYAH For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach r...
JESSICA LANGE In 1983, before computers came along, it wasn't easy to do electronic basslines and rhythms.
GILLIAN GILBERT It was really hard once that moment came up.
IRMA NORTON I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It...
ZOE MCLELLAN I was real happy for the kids. They've been working hard and things finally came together.
DON NEISE Before acting offers came by, I dabbled in theatre under the aegis of the late thespian Dinesh Thaku...
ARFI LAMBA It's hard to explain the pride that you feel. It's pride for me, for the people that came together t...
GARY WOOD He was not an easy student to work with, but he finally came around,
BOB SHEPPARD [Connecticut] came out and played hard, they were fired up. We came out flat compared to what we wer...
CARRIE MASON The part that's a little hard to understand is that he came back to the same place the earrings came...
LT. TOD DAHLE Charles came out in that third quarter with a point to prove to everyone. We got on him a little bit...
JEFF BRIMHALL When an opportunity came for me to wrestle, I just worked hard. The coaches just kept telling me it ...
DAN BEDOY I came, I saw, I conquered.
JULIUS CAESAR I came to photography by accident.
EVE ARNOLD Where I came from, no one was a writer.
HOWARD GORDON I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.
FERNANDO PESSOA McDonald's name came up, but he's not the player for me.
COLIN TODD Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth...
IAN MCKELLEN Reflecting on where I came from helps me to appreciate and balance what I have now.
MEGHAN MARKLE I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.
KEITH DAVID Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every tool shop of my mind, and with long ...
GORDON PARKS The goals came easy tonight. We got a little goal happy in the second half.
DAN KUMETAT My interest in acting came from seeing Broadway shows on summer trips to New York as a child. It was...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG The guy came down the aisle, looked me in the face and went by me. I kept looking for the cookies I ...
BETTY RITCHIE A lot of people who came into my family's life looking like heroes ended up acting more like villain...
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN It's very meaningful for me because this is where I came from.
GREGG POPOVICH For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
G. WILLOW WILSON So many years of hard work, everything for this one night. And we came through in the end.
ALEX IZYKOWSKI Every day, we all came in and worked hard together. This was an opportunity for all of us.
REGGIE ABERCROMBIE You stood there and played. There might have been a couple of choreographed moves. Now it's acting, ...
MARIO ANAYA If a girl came up to me and asked me out, that's a little forward. Guys like it when girls play ...
CHANDLER PARSONS Our boys came out and played hard from the very beginning.
CHARLIE TATE The girls were very excited. They came out and played hard.
DINA GRAVES Our kids came out and wrestled hard. They have their goals set and came out after them. The impressi...
IAN HEARN I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the fi...
HARRY S TRUMAN I came out with the bases loaded. Came out looking for a big hit, and I came through.
BRUCE THOMPSON Broadcasting was something, I don't want to say it came easy, but it's something I'm com...
CRAIG KILBORN First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came ...
MARTIN NIEMOELLER First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER It made me feel like I was someone important. It was a nice feeling. They came out here to watch me ...
LAURENCE MARONEY We are very proud of what we've done. Before we went into the studio we were genuinely worried that ...
GARY LIGHTBODY Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the ...
DAVID COPPERFIELD Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
RANDY HARRISON I cheated real hard, I left my arms open. I just reached, and I hit all ball, and it came back to me...
DARIUS MILES These two kids came to me.
DON SHOWS I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally b...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON I came into this league by myself, and I'll leave by myself.
MALIK JACKSON I came up with a story and I wrote it.
E. L. JAMES I came out around 25 publicly.
CHAZ BONO Then I came back and restarted at the UW that fall.
DANIEL J. EVANS I feel like I came out and ran the ball extremely hard.
TRAVIS HENRY And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: a...
BIBLE She worked for him for three months. When I first came here she didn't work for me.
GENE FRAISE Most of my young girls that came in gave me a really good effort. But, once we get down, it's hard t...
CARONICA DEBOSE For Lindsay it's tough, because she's not 100%. It's day to day, and how much can she go? She worked...
MARKUS ROEDERS I think it's really important for me not to forget where I came from.
ANNA KOURNIKOVA For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.
DAVID COPPERFIELD He worked so hard to prepare for the season, changed his throwing motion, and then it all came crash...
TOM LAMB Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.
JAMES HETFIELD My love for the theater has always been a priority. That hasn't changed. I got into acting that way....
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably i...
JACOB RUPPERT We came out and did our thing. I came out feeling good. Louis was talking to me and keeping me pumpe...
DEMETRIUS SERRANO Because...because...she came here with me.
SUZANNE COLLINS It came as a surprise to me.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI Fears and fancies thick upon me came.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH They came after me with a vengeance.
ELEANOR COOK It was just a great ballgame. Both teams came out and played hard.
ANTHONY SMITH They came out hard in the third quarter and we couldn't answer back.
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CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message to us from the dead, - fr...
CHARLES KINGSLEY He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
CHARLES LAMB Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creat...
CHARLES LAMB