Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing.
I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.
America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.
This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.
It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.
The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?
You have to pack as much as you can in an hour or 70 minutes. This time around it was 15 songs, so it was a challenge to get them all the right length so you could get them all on.
When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.
And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement.
The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge.