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Challenge Quotes

"There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer."

Ralph Fiennes, British Actor

Challenge, Fantasy, World, Writer

"We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil."

Claus von Stauffenberg, German Soldier

Challenge, Conscience, Evil, Man

"But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public."

John Hutton, English Educator

Challenge, Confidence, Economy, Europe

"If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it."

Joel Coen, American Director

"To me, Batman is definately Bruce Wayne's darker side. The challenge is playing it as two separate aspects of the same person. I have to create the illusion of a Dark Knight, who's mysterious and strong."

Kevin Conroy, American Actor

Challenge, Illusion, Knight

"When you live in contrary to the demand of life, life doesn't work for you. Life rather works against you."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Challenge, Contrary, Life, Demand, Progress

"You stand the risk of a down turn, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Challenge, Risk, Standstill, Growth, Courage

"Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Challenge, Desire, Obsession

"I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk."

Tom Selleck, American Actor

Challenge, Risk

"If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me."

Ed Harris, American Actor

"When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine."

Alex Lowe, American Athlete

Challenge, Risk

"Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge."

Richard E. Grant, British Actor

"The biggest challenge was trying to convey the story of the making of a film that isn't finished yet - and which won't be finished until the third film, The Return of the King, reaches our cinemas towards the end of 2003!"

Brian Sibley, English Writer

Challenge, End, Film, Trying

"Right now we have a closure rate between discovery and exploitation of four to six months. We need to be more in the realm of seven to 10 days. That is an enormous challenge."

John W. Thompson, American Businessman

Challenge, Discovery, Exploitation, Months

"Every single book is a challenge."

Nora Roberts, American Author

"When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Challenge, Transformer, Skepticism, Growth

"The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche."

Adrian Lyne, English Director

Challenge, Film, Moments

"The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget."

Debbie Allen, American Actress

"To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater."

Solomon Ortiz, American Politician

Challenge, Minority, States, United

"I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important."

Amy Smart, American Actress

Challenge, Want

"That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople."

Jim Fowler, American Scientist

"And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge."

Richard Branson, British Businessman

"Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty."

William Bennett, American Politician

Challenge, Difficulty, Trying, Will

"I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge."

Rita Coolidge, American Musician

Challenge, Excellence, Jazz

"I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory."

Earl Hines, American Musician

Challenge, Deep, Smile, Water

"We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation."

Roy Barnes, American Politician

Challenge, Duty, Fight, Job

"It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum."

Charlie Watts, British Musician

Challenge, Years

"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."

Kurt Cobain, American Musician

Challenge, Corruption, Duty, Youth

"Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement."

Josie Maran, American Model

Challenge, Trying

"That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year."

John Zorn, American Composer

"The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement."

Raymond Chandler, American Writer

Challenge, Effect, Leisure

"I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important."

Jeffery Deaver, American Writer

Challenge, Meaning, Writing

"Anytime you play a finalist it's going to be a challenge."

Steve Nash, Canadian Athlete

Challenge, Play

"It was a challenge to my teammates to help me."

Wilt Chamberlain, American Athlete

Challenge, Help

"I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do."

Jan Egeland, Norwegian Public Servant

Challenge, Nothing, Sense

"Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression."

Margaret Sanger, American Activist

Challenge, Expression, Woman

"With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain."

Greta Scacchi, Italian Actress

Challenge, Sense, Theatre, Tools

"The more difficult a problem is, the more discoveries you make in the process of resolving it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Challenge, Problem, Discovery, Difficult, Resolution

"Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume."

Vera Wang, American Designer

Challenge, Fashion, Night

"It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won."

Gail Devers, American Athlete

"To be a part of a championship team, I'm excited... This is the closest I've ever been to a championship. I'm looking forward to the challenge of helping this team repeat."

Michael Finley, American Athlete

"It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it."

Andre Agassi, American Athlete

Challenge, Fighting, World

"We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes."

William Henry Ashley, American Businessman

Challenge, Boats

"We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going."

John Sexton, American Educator

Challenge, Magic

"There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior."

Jessica Alba, American Actress

"Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy."

Tim Roth, British Actor

Challenge, Comedy, Fact, Film

"The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch."

Harry Anderson, American Actor

Challenge, Workers

"I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation."

Dustin Hoffman, American Actor

"The challenge is high. The stakes are important. I think it's manageable."

William Hedgcock Webster, American Public Servant

"The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble."

Jesse Helms, American Politician

Challenge, Principles, Sight, Trouble

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