Rough Quotes - Page 22

• We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight.

  Evander Holyfield

  Mother, Real

  "Mama's whippings meant I didn't wind up like Tyson". Interview With Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2008.

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• The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the characteristic features of rough, uncivilized rural life, such as hard conditions of life, courage, ferocity, and partnership in authority. Therefore the strength of the 'Asabiya is maintained.

  Ibn Khaldun

  History, Rural Life, Doe

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• I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping!

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Brother, Jumping

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• I've always been a rough kid.

  Ray Knight

  Kids

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• When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.

  Paget Brewster

  Ensemble, Scene, Shows

  "Criminal Minds' Paget Brewster Gets a Devil of a Storyline". Interview with Matt Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. March 11, 2009.

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• Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.

  Sean Bean

  Character, Fighting, Class

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• Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Cutting, Years, Choices

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• I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front 'rough guide'. I thought: 'Yeah' she's not a looker.

  Jimmy Carr

  Book, School, Saws

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• Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister.

  Steve Coogan

  School, Sound, Different

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• One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Mother, Tough, Self Made

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• From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of a Rough Gang - we went around and terrorised all the pupils in school.

  Joseph Fiennes

  School, People, Age

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

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• There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about the world.

  Ari Graynor

  Ideas, Pressure, Rough Drafts

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

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• The birth of any show is always a rough one.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Birth, Shows

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• The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

  Greta Gerwig

  Thinking, Tiny, Economy

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2010.

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• The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it's the truth.

  Michael Easton

  Baby, Home, World

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• Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.

  Pete Townshend

  Running, Boys, Littles

  Song: Rough Boys, Album: Empty Glass, 2006

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• A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.

  Morton Blackwell

  Commitment, Generosity, Letters

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• I may drink too much and play too loud, hang out with a rough and rowdy crowd. That don't mean I don't respect my mama or Uncle Sam.

  Tracy Byrd

  Uncles, Mean, Play

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• I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.

  Sue Wicks

  Basketball, Sports, Believe

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• Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.

  George Soros

  Business, Government, Steps

  George Soros (2000). “Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism”, PublicAffairs

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• In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

  Ray Dalio

  People, Giving, Want

  "Dalio's Quest to Outlive Himself" by Katherine Burton and Saijel Kishan, www.bloomberg.com. August 10, 2017.

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• I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.

  Corey Feldman

  Childhood

  "Corey Feldman on child actors, his favorite roles, and the Goonies sequel". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. December 10, 2012.

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• I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood.

  Sherman Hemsley

  School, Acting, Forget

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• SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Writing, Character, Discovery

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• After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of any value.

  Leslie Jamison

  Sick, Mind, Finishing

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