Rough Quotes - Page 12

• Aboriginal Australia is a tough place to work, rough and tough.

  Sam Abell

  Australia, Tough, Aboriginal

  Source: dougplummer.blogs.com

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• We are getting used to levels of violence, we are getting used to seeing these horrific things going on all the time. I think it's tough. It's rough.

  Michal Rovner

  Thinking, Levels, Violence

  "Michal Rovner, Into the Night". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2016.

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• We sing a lot of the soundtrack in this film [Swiss Army Man] - me and Paul Dano - and on the last day of filming we had to just get into the back of our sound mixer's van and record a really crappy, rough version of the singing then. For some reason that was one of the most fun days.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Fun, Army, Men

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• You want to know the truth? I was going to say something extremely rough to Hillary [Clinton], to her family, and I said to myself, "I can't do it. I just can't do it. It's inappropriate. It's not nice."

  Donald Trump

  Nice, Want, Inappropriate

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• A military preparedness strategy with specifics yesterday and today rolls out a school of choice plan with monetary specifics. So [Donald Trump] has pivoted over the last, he had a very rough go after the conventions.

  Eric Bolling

  Military, School, Yesterday And Today

  "Clinton, Trump square off in commander-in-chief forum". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2016.

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• I like playing misfits, I like playing oddballs, I like playing characters with rough edges.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Rough Edges, Misfits

  Source: mynorthwest.com

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• There is three different ways that autistic kids will interact with animals.And they also need to make sure that they're not getting too rough with their animals - they need to learn how to pet the dog properly, they can't be pulling its ears and things like that.

  Temple Grandin

  Dog, Kids, Animal

  Source: www.floppycats.com

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• It's the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody's got to do it. And if you don't, who will?

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Sometimes, Duty, Ifs

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• When I'm not working, I want to be the version of the person that I was born to be. I was born with curly hair. It fits my personality, and it's totally who I am. I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.

  Erin Wasson

  Girl, Curly Hair, Who I Am

  "Erin Wasson on Her Hair, Antique Shopping, and Cooking". Interview with Leah Melby Clinton, www.elle.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I just want people to feel like they can achieve something great in their lives. We all go through rough times, but love is the antidote. You've got to dream and just believe in yourself. And if you believe, you will achieve it.

  Common

  Dream, Believe, Love Is

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I'm a big-mouth and an exhibitionist, and I'm slightly egotistical. All those things have to come together for a writer.

  Ben Richards

  Together, Mouths, London

  Source: collider.com

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• I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].

  Lena Horne

  Brother, Water, Black

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• I love hitting into the rough because it gets me close to the people.

  Ray Romano

  People, Hitting

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• After I got divorced, I said to myself, I will never, ever get married again. It was in cement. I went through a really rough twenty-five years, but it happened again. I fell in love. I told her, Baby, I don't want a prenuptial agreement. This is it. Everyone told me I was nuts. Well, my new wife and I are married six years and we get along great. You can make anything work if you're both givers.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Baby, Agreement, Years

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Because my hands are rough and wrinkley, they are my least favourite feature. An ex-boyfriend used to call them 'Freddy Kreuger' fingers.

  Tyra Banks

  Ex Boyfriend, Hands, Favourite

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• There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doubt, Sap, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.584, Simon and Schuster

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• The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling.

  Joe Bastianich

  Cutting, Giving, Texture

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• I'm certain prison is pretty rough as it is but imagine if you were a murderer and a foodie!

  Greg Behrendt

  Prison, Imagine, Certain

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• [My] photos are often out of focus, rough, streaky, warped, etc. But if you think about it, a normal human being will in one day perceive an infinite number of images, and some of them are focused upon, others are barely seen out of the corner of one's eye.

  Daido Moriyama

  Eye, Thinking, Numbers

  Sandra S. Phillips, Daidō Moriyama, Alexandra Munroe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1999). “Daido Moriyama: stray dog”, San Francisco Museum

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• All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Boxing, Endurance, Rowdy

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• I'd had a rough childhood.

  Joni Mitchell

  Childhood

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• Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It is awfully rough, but he does make me laugh.

  Dick Van Dyke

  I Love Him, Hbo, Laughing

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. June 9, 2011.

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• I think my brand of country music is that's been influenced by not just the rough-stock rodeo side or Ted Nugent's "let's get crazy style", but also the stand-up and sing style's like George Strait and Merle Haggard, and also the wild side of Chris Ledoux

  Cody Johnson

  Country, Crazy, Thinking

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• I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy.

  Chris Bosh

  Nba, Mercy

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• If I had to write a rough draft, all the way through and then go back and start over, I probably would just stop writing. I wouldn't find that interesting. I would feel that I had committed so many things to the paper that I couldn't easily undo because one thing leads to the next, the interconnectedness, the sequences would make it very hard to change something that simply didn't work.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Interesting, Starting Over

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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