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"When faced with a hurdle then give it all you've got to jump over it because it can't be done in two stages."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Challenge, Hurdle, Jump, Effort, Stages

"I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself."

George Eliot, British Author

Challenge, Ambition, Obstacle, Self, Strength

"Have they known scorn like youFive cellars down?"

E.A. Bucchianeri, American Author

Challenge, Experience, Learning, Emotion, Resilience

"For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Challenge, Happiness, Path, Struggle, Truth

"Nothing is easy, and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

Challenge, Difficulty, Effort, Work, Persistence

"It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist."

John Green, American Author

Challenge, Dignity, Loss, Survival, Hope

"It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Challenge, Difficulty, Life, Choice, Play

"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

Challenge, Difficulty, Gain, Glory, Reputation

"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast."

John Green, American Author

Challenge, Escape, Life, Determination, Hope

"Impossible things are really rough to do, you know."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Challenge, Impossibility, Difficulty, Perseverance, Struggle

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"Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight."

Responsibility

"There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown."

Business

"I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it."

Media

"It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon."

Media

"The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years."

Theatre

"In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself."

Work

"I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays."

Reading

"I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director."

Interest

"I've never presented. The logistics of that is a challenge."

Challenge