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My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.
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Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create my own version of this idealized writer's room as well as the ideal family.
Jill Soloway
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Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.


Arthur Keith
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I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.


Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it difficult to reconcile success with humility. I tried it first, but it meant avoiding the very essence of my career - total exhilaration and the ecstasy of creativity.
Raymond Loewy
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I don't think you can describe your ideal girl. A big part of that is just meeting someone and really clicking with them and wanting to hang out with them all of the time.
Aziz Ansari
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After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.
Lisa Jakub
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.


Vivien Leigh
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Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.


Thomas Keneally
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The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.
William Ellery Channing
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English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
Phil Donahue
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Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.


Barry Levinson
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But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.


Robert Rauschenberg
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I had hippie parents, and I found it difficult to figure out how to rebel against them.


Stewart Butterfield
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I was one of those kids who found it difficult to eat anything that looked like an animal.


Gina McKee
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I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me.
Tom Smothers
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
Barbara Cartland
My biggest false steps have actually been when I tried to do very different projects. I found I was getting people saying, 'Why does Whit Stillman think he can do a film about blacks in early '60s Jamaica? Or the Chinese and the cultural revolution?' Those were the two biggest failures I had getting off the ground.
Whit Stillman
Obama came in really wanting to change things, but he hit a wall of corporate money, oil and coal money: when he tried to pass the Cap and Trade system of pharmaceutical money, when he tried to pass the Obamacare - which, of course, then got watered down into a much less effective, much less economical, program.
Robert Kennedy, Jr.