Acting is just common sense. It isn’t hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
Hard
It’s very hard to write humor.
You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.
Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
I don’t believe in a golden mean; I don’t believe you find policy wisdom between two polar points. I don’t dismiss that possibility, but I look at the platform that’s so ideologically based, that’s so dismissive of facts, of evidence, of science, and it’s frankly hard to take seriously.
When I am in situations where I break out of the pattern, it’s hard on me. Once you get used to regular scripture study, you miss it if you don’t have it. It’s like food – you have to have it. I know that I need the scriptures like I need food. I don’t miss a regular meal, and I don’t miss regular scripture study.
It’s hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, ‘Beat me, daddy.’
If, at a party, I say I’m a poet, people have a hard time responding, almost as if I’d said I’m a priest.
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.