Good governance requires working toward common ground. It isn't easy.
I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Comedy is easy for me, but with drama, I don't know... it's still the Holy Grail.
If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.
For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.
If somebody said, 'You're going to be the Number 1 pick; you're going to have a great team around you all these years'? It would've been too easy.
I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.
Given the gruesome fate of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, and the fact that five of the previous 12 Romanov rulers were also murdered, it is easy to regard Russia's imperial dynasty as cursed.
I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.
People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.
Country music tends to be so sentimental and homespun, it's easy to stumble into self-parody, but Haggard has brought a freshness to the themes that places him alongside Hank Williams and Willie Nelson as one of the greatest country music writers.
When you pitch a half-baked idea it's so easy for someone to pick it apart and hate on it.
It's just as easy to buy a $12,000 watch in East Hampton as it is to pick up a carton of milk, and new homeowners are so impatient that they landscape their front lawns with 'mature gardens' of full-grown trees.
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
I told Simon, 'I don't want to play Oscar. I want to play Felix because Oscar is too easy. He gets all the laughs. Felix is a hard part; that's the part I want to play.'
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
I'm always choosing the hard things, the things that aren't easy.
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
