Tough Quotes - Page 21

• Editing is hard but nowhere NEAR as tough as facing that blank page and blinking cursor each day. You're all alone and no one else can do it. At least with editing you have someone in the trench with you.

  Sarah Dessen

  Editing, Each Day, Pages

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.wbez.org. January 13, 2012.

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• I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be turned away. Not everything is a winner, which is tough when you've devoted eight or nine months of your life to something.

  Sarah Dessen

  Book, Editors, Eight

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.wbez.org. January 13, 2012.

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• I think the experience forced me to consider how interested I was in political cartooning. After I was fired, I applied to other papers but political cartooning, like all cartooning, is a very tough field to break into. Newspapers are very reluctant to hire their own cartoonists when they can get Oliphant or MacNelly through syndication for a twentieth of the price.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Political, Paper

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• Unmet expectations are tough when it's your wife or your husband, but it's really tough when it's God. And yet, it can be a time of growth and a time of faith, a time of understanding who God is.

  Max Lucado

  Husband, Expectations, Wife

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• It's important to preach like there's a broken heart on every pew. That's always been a phrase that stuck with me. Not everybody is having a tough time, but you can bet your buck that there's a good tenth of your church that's going through a hard season. There really is a broken heart on every pew.

  Max Lucado

  Heart, Broken, Tough Times

  Source: www.biblestudytools.com

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• My heart is to help hurting people. I teach people God's Word so they can overcome their problems and avoid some of the tough lessons I had to learn.

  Joyce Meyer

  Hurt, Heart, People

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• I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.

  Meryl Streep

  Teacher, School, Math

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• I had a very good time when I did The Gleaners - even though the people are poor, and I was suffering to see the conditions, and plus they are not such lovely hearts. They are tough to each other, they beat each other, they are rude and they are violent and they drink. They're not sweethearts, you know, but some were so interesting.

  Agnes Varda

  Heart, People, Interesting

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words.

  George Carlin

  New York, Trying, Use

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• People think women directors are tough. Truth is, I'm a pussycat and I hate conflict. I just want everyone to be happy on set.

  Julie Delpy

  Hate, Thinking, People

  "TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Julie Delpy – ‘Lolo’". www.indiewire.com. September 16, 2015.

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• In addition to relentlessly resourceful, you want a tough and a calm cofounder.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Want, Calm

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• ... you can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that's a tough bar.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Thinking, Bars

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• Inspiration is tough to define, it comes from so many different places. I have multiple exhibitions touring the globe, so I do travel quite a bit and travel is a great way to find inspiration.

  Nathan Sawaya

  Inspiration, Different, Exhibitions

  Source: londoncalling.com

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• I still love Marvel to death and I had a great experience, and it was a really tough decision to leave Marvel. It was a very easy decision to come to DC; it was very difficult to leave Marvel. And I really wanted to draw Batman, and really, that was entirely the discussion when it came to coming to DC.

  David Finch

  Decision, Easy, Great Experiences

  Source: ifanboy.com

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• Humans are a TOUGH animal! We can do anything.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Animal, Humans, Can Do

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• People hand over the power to you withimmense faith. It's your job to ensure tough implementation of laws.

  Raj Thackeray

  Jobs, Hands, Law

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• I can assure you that most of the drivers have a lot of things they'd like to do, but racing keeps them from doing that. We're so restricted because of our long season. We have a one-and-a-half-month period where we get to do what we want - that's shorter than any other sport. It makes it tough, for sure.

  Denny Hamlin

  Sports, Long, Racing

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• People are going through tough times. I want to say to them, "Live your joy." I know I can tell them that because I went through a lot of hard times. I had a choice of either succumbing to the hard times or figuring it out.

  Bonnie St. John

  Hard Times, People, Choices

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• Senator Marco 'amnesty' Rubio, while proponents of immigration reform say the Florida Republican was quick to retreat when the going got tough.

  Donald Trump

  Florida, Immigration, Reform

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• You can never look that tough in glasses. ... You never see somebody push up their glasses and say, "I'm gonna kick your ass."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Glasses, Looks

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• If you're a guy over 30 by yourself in the hotel pool, you automatically look like a murderer who's just relaxing after he strangled a family. "Yeah-that dad was a tough one to kill."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Dad, Guy

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• I enjoy traveling and playing baseball.Other than that, the minor leagues are tough. The wear and tear on your body.. and it's tough to stay on a nutrition program because you can only eat what is within walking distance of the hotel and what the clubhouse provides.

  Tyler Thornburg

  Baseball, Distance, League

  Source: reviewingthebrew.com

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• It's really tough for the small farmer to have a successful business. That is the big challenge - all the laws are designed for larger corporations. And that's going to be the challenge in this country; it goes beyond food.

  Robert Kenner

  Country, Successful, Law

  Source: www.cuesa.org

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• When you do well in school as a young person you can foresee a bountiful future for yourself. When you don't do well, the future you see is bleak. It's tough to find an honour student in trouble with the law. We have to feel that we're of value and we get that from people reacting to our prudence.

  George Chuvalo

  School, Law, People

  Source: fightnetwork.com

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• There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Pressure, Robust, Projects

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