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"I've always had difficulties with female characters."
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"It's not so easy... it's not possible."
"You can put in all the difficulties, jumps, runs, and any other devilish complexities you like, except octave spans and similar features which do not suit the formation of hands."
"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
"Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration."
"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
"It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already."
"I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes."
"A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning."
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"In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know."
"During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity."
"The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received."
"When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt."
"We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own."
"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
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