Tough Quotes - Page 10

• Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.

  Madeline Carroll

  Acting, Want, Force

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

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• The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Jobs, People, Actors

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• I think it's very, very tough to compare postseason and in-season, just for the simple fact that there's the heightened levels of energy on both sides of the ball.

  Ndamukong Suh

  Simple, Thinking, Facts

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• Business is tough, and the fashion industry is particularly tough.

  Ali Hewson

  Fashion, Fashion Industry, Industry

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• Constant contact is what people require these days. Its tough on artists.

  Emily Robison

  Artist, People, These Days

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• My days in hostel were tough. I was ragged by my seniors. We were asked to wash their dirty clothes, do their odd jobs, etc. When it came to eating, we would be often given burnt rotis and milk that had awful odour. But, never once did I call home. I knew if I had to become a tough cricketer, I would have to handle the pressure.

  Suresh Raina

  Senior, Jobs, Dirty

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• All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough.

  Ann Landers

  Marriage, Together, Living Together

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

  Anais Nin

  Character, America, Shells

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• Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere;
  Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough;
  Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere;
  Sweet is the firbloome, but its braunches rough;
  Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough;
  Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill;
  Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough;
  And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Growing Up, Nuts

  Edmund Spenser, “Sonnet XXVI”

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• I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am -- and this ought to be made very clear -- I am a very serious woman.

  Bella Abzug

  Mother, Men, Names

  Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

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• Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton it comes in!

  Jean Kerr

  Cracks, Toys, Wonderful

  JEAN KERR (1970). “Penny Candy”

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• Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?

  Lillian Hellman

  Thinking, People, Perception

  Lillian Hellman (1979). “Six Plays”, Vintage

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• All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.

  Fay Weldon

  Mother, Children, Eye

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• The tough-minded ... respect difference. Their goal is a world made safe for differences, where the United States may be American to the hilt without threatening the peace of the world, and France may be France, and Japan may be Japan on the same conditions.

  Ruth Benedict

  Japan, Differences, Goal

  Ruth Benedict (2006). “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

  Fanny Fern

  Bread, Dependence

  Fanny Fern (1986). “Ruth Hall and Other Writings”, p.319, Rutgers University Press

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• If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.

  Edna Ferber

  Men, Would Be, Scared

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• You've got to be tough to win.

  Frank Leahy

  Winning, Nfl

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• What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.

  Juliana Spahr

  Girl, Mother, Writing

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• This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes much wiser over a period time passing. It is not something that is injected into him by a needle. It is not something that comes on a wave of flashing, explosive light one night and say, 'Huzzah! Eureka! I've got it!' and then proceeds to write the great American novel in eleven days. It doesn't work that way. It's a long, tedious, tough, frustrating process, but never, ever be put aside by the fact that it's hard.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Night, Light

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• I tried my hand at writing, I tried to write out a little script - and it's not too bad. Mostly, though, it let me understand how incredibly difficult that job is. I can't even imagine doing it on a weekly basis for a series in any way. That's tough. I think I'll try to leave that to smarter people than me.

  Nathan Fillion

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  "Nathan Fillion Inteview - WONDER WOMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 28, 2009.

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• Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough. And I'm trying to earn my spot on the team. I'm trying to earn a starting spot. I'm trying to become a complete midfielder who attacks, who defends. So that's the mindset.

  Carli Lloyd

  Team, Dirty, Play

  Source: www.slate.com

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• It is worth reminding that being president is a tough job for anybody, and particularly so in the information age. There's such a glut of information. Anything a president says or does is picked up on the Internet or the 24/7 news media and criticized almost instantly. Leaders persuade through their words and as such their words need to be measured and well chosen. It is a tough job.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Jobs, Media, Leader

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Getting older doesn't help you in the fact that you might have covered some of this ground before. So you're listening to a song that you know is a hit, but it just can't be a hit for you, it's gonna be a hit for somebody else. That's tough.

  Garth Brooks

  Song, Listening, Getting Older

  "Garth Brooks interview: The country icon on Nashville, GhostTunes and his Portland shows". Interview with David Greenwald, www.oregonlive.com. March 6, 2015.

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• At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.

  James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

  People, Safety, Tough Times

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• Women are called difficult and tough when (1) we negotiate the best deal, (2) we are perfectionists in doing our job, (3) we are willing to work harder and longer than men are willing to, and (4) when we question anything - anything - that someone else is doing, particularly if that someone is a man.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Jobs, Hard Work, Men

  Georgette Mosbacher (1994). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve”, Touchstone

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