When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself. – Cate Blanchett
The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduces the financial incentive of stressed borrowers to remain in their homes. – Ben Bernanke
One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow’s flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation. – B. R. Ambedkar
It’s going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 percent and perhaps even less if we have that fiscal cliff in December or January 2013. – Bill Gross
Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws. – Constantin Stanislavski
Being an athlete in a cold-weather sport is really difficult to deal with the asthma. – Charlie White
I think I’m the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ – I’m pretty annoying, but driven. – Aaron Levie
We need to work out who is paying for film; in the U.K., it is increasingly difficult to get production funds – and pre-sales demand more and more shot/cut material. – Beeban Kidron
Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico. – Bruce Beresford
The world is a fascinating, difficult place, and in order to take full advantage of what the planet has to offer, we need to see and hear natural things. – Bill O’Reilly
For John Woo, it is quite difficult to make a movie in Hollywood in his own style. Because Hollywood is based on a producer system, it is difficult for a director to express himself using his own style of filmmaking. – Alan Mak
I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there’s a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets. – David Nicholls
I was told it might be quite difficult to conceive, so it really was a great blessing when my pregnancy suddenly happened. I had been diagnosed years ago with polycystic ovarian syndrome, which can affect your fertility – but luckily, in my case, it didn’t. – Natasha Little
Google pays advertisers based not just on payment per click but also by number of clicks. The interplay between the two sets the prices, so a government-regulated price for ‘equal access’ might be difficult to set. – Marvin Ammori
It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days. – Neil Jordan
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion. – Mary Douglas
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death… I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals. – Emma Thompson
Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild. – Norm Dicks
We’re making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug. – Michael McCaul