Tough Things Quotes - Page 3

• The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

  Randy Wayne White

  Writing, Doors, Rooms

  "Randy Wayne White: Fishing Guide To Crime Writer". "Morning Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. July 24, 2012.

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• I'll tell you something about tough things. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find the way through. On the Food Network they have these shows where cooks have to put a meal together with all these weird ingredients. That's a lot like my life-dealing with things you wouldn't think ever go together. But a good cook can make the best meal out of the craziest combinations.

  Joan Bauer

  Thinking, Together, Way

  Joan Bauer (2011). “Close to Famous”, p.141, Penguin

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• I think having a good life prompts it... anybody who has a good life and looks around them sees the enormous disparity that exists in the world between those people who do and those that don't. I can't say we walk about our guilt a lot, though. If we do, it probably comes out in the form of self-loathing jokes. But it's a tough thing to wrap your head around... the have's and have not's in the world.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Good Life, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There are a lot of people who go through a lot of tough things, and it doesn't stop them from wanting to be a better parent.

  Clive Owen

  People, Parent, Tough

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes the things we want most are the hardest to get. That means you need to be even more determined to succeed. That's what it takes to be a winner. You have to want it bad enough to stick with it no matter how tough things get.

  Chuck Norris

  Art, Mean, Determined To Succeed

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• Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mean, Medicine, Faces

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• A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will be a great script that's written beautifully, and then the director who has also written it does not have the facility to translate it.

  Richard Ayoade

  Directors, Doe, Gauges

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• I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: greendayminority.tumblr.com

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• It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

  Ben Folds

  Real, Numbers, Pressure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's all of this stuff where we have so much debate over nonsense; it could be cured if we had a better educational system, if we trained people to really try and look into things on their own. That's a tough thing to do, particularly with the educational system staggering.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Educational, People, Trying

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's hard for them to figure out how to play what they like when there's somebody up above them yelling 'you have to play this.

  Chris Isaak

  Yelling, Play, People

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• Having to go back to doing something I don't like and am not passionate about would be a tough thing.

  Kip Moore

  Would Be, Passionate, Tough

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• I'm fearful when I push myself. It's a tough thing to do, but you need to acknowledge that you have what it takes to succeed.

  Gretchen Bleiler

  Needs, Succeed, Tough

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• Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

  Adam Brody

  Break Up, Breakup, Tough

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• It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

  George McGovern

  War, Fighting, Watches

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• Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Poetry, Pitching

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• You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

  LL Cool J

  Winning, Trying, Matter

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• Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Thinking, Understanding, Irony

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• It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Suicidal, Perfect, Tough

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• The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts.

  Robert Redford

  Aging, Tough, Knows

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• There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

  Piper Perabo

  Being In Love, Mind, Tough

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• That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire

  Luke Wilson

  Work, College, Tough

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• The only tough thing is admitting to my wife how much a certain article of clothing costs.

  Taye Diggs

  Wife, Admitting, Cost

  "One Fine Taye". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Divorce is divorce and it's a really tough thing to go through, (But) I'd love to get married again.

  Nicole Kidman

  Divorce, Tough, Married

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• The really tough thing about humility is you can't brag about it.

  Gene Brown

  Humility, Tough, Bragging

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