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• Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

  Anne Bronte

  Song, Long, Should

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• Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.

  Steve Coogan

  School, Sound, Different

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• One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Mother, Tough, Self Made

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• From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of a Rough Gang - we went around and terrorised all the pupils in school.

  Joseph Fiennes

  School, People, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.

  Sue Wicks

  Basketball, Sports, Believe

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• I may drink too much and play too loud, hang out with a rough and rowdy crowd. That don't mean I don't respect my mama or Uncle Sam.

  Tracy Byrd

  Uncles, Mean, Play

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• A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.

  Morton Blackwell

  Commitment, Generosity, Letters

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• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters

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• Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.

  Pete Townshend

  Running, Boys, Littles

  Song: Rough Boys, Album: Empty Glass, 2006

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• The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it's the truth.

  Michael Easton

  Baby, Home, World

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• The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

  Greta Gerwig

  Thinking, Tiny, Economy

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2010.

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• The birth of any show is always a rough one.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Birth, Shows

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• There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about the world.

  Ari Graynor

  Ideas, Pressure, Rough Drafts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.

  Paul Theroux

  Morning, Dark, Lakes

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, Hurt, Winning

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• Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians.

  Marie Colvin

  War, Home, Differences

  "Marie Colvin: 'Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice'" by Marie Colvin, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2012.

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• For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.

  Cliff Martinez

  Writing, Cutting, Waste

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• Our minds are a lot like the sea...you wake up some days and its rough and stormy.

  Jaimal Yogis

  Sea, Mind, Wake Up

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• I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Voice, Wish, Sound

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• I realized that the artists who managed to fight through this recession have a better shot at longevity than most. The recession was a test of your resolve and passion. I think as we come out of these rough times we will be more adept at survival and will have gained the skills necessary to make a long fruitful artistic career. There will still be those that fade away but we are more likely to grow and bend with the times and prosper.

  Mark Edward

  Passion, Fighting, Artist

  "Lessons From Old Art Magazines". markedwardadams.com. May 3, 2013.

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• You have to go through rough patches to achieve great things

  Victoria Azarenka

  Rough Patches, Achieve, Great Things

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• We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles of misconceptions as heavy as the great sacks upon their backs these simple, rough-handed people are the ancestors of our descendants, the fathers and mothers of our children.

  Walter Weyl

  Mother, Children, Confused

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• It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!

  S. E. Hinton

  Break, Fairs

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.40, Penguin

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• A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype

  Jean Michel Jarre

  Odd, Stereotype, Chic

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• [L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The brightest hour of unborn Spring, Through the winter wandering, Found, it seems, the halcyon Morn To hoar February born.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sweet, Spring, Winter

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.612

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