Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.
Negotiating with Franco is like having your teeth pulled.
If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.
Laughing about something is one of the more accessible ways to approach a difficult issue.
Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant.
There will come a day when someone calls to tell me my column's been binned, and that will be a really hard day, and I've already got it set up so that they'll ring someone else first - because I don't want to be given that news when I'm walking down the street, because it will be really heartbreaking.
It is hard to tell your mother to change her life.
Deliver bad news early and personally.
One of the worst days of my life was telling Dick Ebersol I was going to TNT.
She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.
It's hard for men sometimes to talk about feminism, just as it's hard for people who aren't from ethnic minorities to talk about racial prejudice. It's a difficult conversation to have, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have it.
Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.
Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining.
It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.
If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.
Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.
I think the thing that I find the most difficult to talk about is religion.
I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking at me with that serious and penetrating gaze of his that caused me such trepidation, and asked whether I knew what I wanted to do.
I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes it's funny.
An interview is like a minefield.
It's awkward to tell others that your spouse has died. Everyone becomes so sad and sorry, and you just hate like heck to have to break the news to someone who hasn't heard the news.
But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.
I wish we didn't have to tell this story.
