Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.
I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.
The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.
I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window.
In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.
It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work.
The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings, investment and hard work. That's wrong, and that's why the double tax on Social Security must end.
My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.
I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.
People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?