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• It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.

  Donal Logue

  Mistake, Cutting, Filmmaker

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• My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

  Shirley Knight

  Careers, Acting, Rough Times

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• I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface and exit through it.

  Annie Dillard

  Cutting, Rough Edges, Exit

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.228, Canongate Books

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• I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.

  Virginia Woolf

  Weed, Women, Lying

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.687, Wordsworth Editions

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• Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Learning, Joy

  Robert Browning (2007). “Poems by Robert Browning (Student Edition)”, p.122, Wildside Press LLC

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• It's not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough.

  Sue Wicks

  Inspirational, Basketball, Hurt

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• Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

  Frances Harper

  Success, Shells, May

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• Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

  Douglas Adams

  Struggle, Winning, Men

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.29, Pan Macmillan

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• I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Dream, Sex

  Pablo Neruda, “Cat's Dream”

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• The abstract, especially in those rough sketches, is very important to me, perhaps because of my advertising background, where layout is so important. Sometimes those first few lines cut the paper into such satisfying shapes that I don't want to go on, but I always do, adding nostrils and nipples and bootstraps until I have filled the paper up as usual.

  Tom of Finland

  Cutting, Important, Usual

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• Why was man created before woman? Because you always need a rough draft before the final copy.” – Chloe Traeger

  Jill Shalvis

  Men, Finals, Needs

  Jill Shalvis (2011). “Head Over Heels”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• I feel the urge, familiar now, to wrench myself from my body and speak directly into her mind. It is the same urge, I realize, that makes me want to kiss her every time I see her, because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating. Our fingers, loosely woven a moment ago, now clutch together, her palm tacky with moisture, mine rough in places where I have grabbed too many handles on too many moving trains. Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide-open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.

  Veronica Roth

  Distance, Moving, Eye

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• Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment and draws abiding joy and strength from the One within. She lives not for herself, but lives to serve the Lord of Love in all, and swims across the sea of life breasting its rough waves joyfully.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spiritual, Selfish, Heart

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• Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring, Wind

  Sonnet 18

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• In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Appreciation, War, Heroic Deeds

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.234, Reprint Services Corporation

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• A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.

  Jim Bishop

  Golf, Lakes, Balls

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• At its best, the US Open demands straight drives, crisp iron shots, brilliant chipping and putting, and strategic position play. Plus the patience of St. Francis and the will of Patton. At its worst, the Open eradicates the difference in ability between a Tom Purtzer and a Tom Watson and throws both in the same jail of high rough and high risk shots. This is the disturbing tendency in the Opens of the seventies and eighties, one which worries everyone in golf.

  Thomas Boswell

  Golf, Jail, Play

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• The real key to Jack's [Nicklaus] success was his fantastic ability to score. His drives sometimes went into the rough, but he could plow the ball out of the tallest grass and get it on the green; bad lies simply didn't affect him as they did the others. Jack also got tremendous height with his one-iron and two-iron, which meant that he could stop them better than his rivals.

  Gardner Dickinson

  Real, Lying, Golf

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• There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.

  J. D. Sedding

  Dream, Time, Believe

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• The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little and the kite soars a little higher; sometimes the wind is too rough and we have to lower it a little, and sometimes it gets caught among the tree branches; but to reach the upper strata of pure bliss-ah, perhaps never.

  Lin Yutang

  Letting Go, Men, Wind

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• Above all, you have to love what you are doing. You cannot fake passion. If you love it you can fight through the rough times and enjoy the good times.

  Shannon Miller

  Passion, Fighting, Gymnastics

  "Shannon Miller: 'I Was Intimidated By Everything, Except Being On The Balance Beam'". Interview with Jenny Schafer, www.celebritybabyscoop.com. January 13, 2010.

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• People who don't want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better.

  Lisa Niemi

  Motivation, Weather, People

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• The musician and the listener. If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.

  Tablo

  Kissing, Two, Burning

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• His voice was low and rough … “What about you? Do you like bad boys?” “There’s definitely appeal,” she breathed. “Good,” He bent and clipped her earlobe with his teeth … “Because they don’t come badder than me.

  Larissa Ione

  Boys, Voice, Teeth

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• My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. A voice that would make the mockingjays fall silent and then tumble over themselves to join in.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fall, Voice, Firsts

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.376, Scholastic Inc.

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