Rough Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

  Squarepusher

  Ideas, Walks, Studios

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• A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.

  Bill Kurtis

  Issues, Community, Understanding

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• To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Sleep, Earth

  Ray Davies (2017). “Americana”, p.192, Le Castor Astral éditeur

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• Rough boys I wanna bite and kiss you.

  Pete Townshend

  Kissing, Boys, Social Taboos

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• Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Rocks, Fishing

  "Saving Kids from 'Nature Deficit Disorder'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 25, 2005.

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• When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Past, Fire, Generosity

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• "Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

  Randy Newman

  Redneck, Play, Language

  "My Life Is Good". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2011.

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• I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

  Damian Lewis

  Thinking, Interesting, Actors

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• I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

  Anna Paquin

  Thinking, Quality, Able

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• I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn't a difficult thing to pull out.

  Hayden Panettiere

  School, College, People

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• It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.

  Kay Panabaker

  Teenager, This Day, Age

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

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• I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects how people see you.

  Mekhi Phifer

  Strong, Attitude, People

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

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• I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

  Maggie Siff

  New York, Grew Up, Bronx

  "Sons of Anarchy's Maggie Siff is Over the Don Draper Type" by Justine Harman, www.elle.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Boys, Play, Different

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• We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they can also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we'd rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Writing, Mean

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• It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't shine, as a rule. Mine certainly didn't. That's why I was rejected for years and years.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Years, Shining

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• I went through a really good-looking phase from birth to 9. And then things went crazy. I don't know what happened, but between 9 and 14 it was really, really rough. I didn't have a lot of friends. The only ones who were nice to me were the theater kids. And they were like, 'You can come and join us. No one likes us.

  Cristin Milioti

  Crazy, Nice, Kids

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• God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s Love.

  A. B. Simpson

  Kings, Dark, Jewels

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• You can't have it all, all at once. Who—man or woman—has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Caring, Men, Thinking

  "Exclusive: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Hobby Lobby Dissent". Interview with Katie Couric, www.yahoo.com. July 30, 2014.

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• So don't let anybody tell you that you're not loved and don't let anybody tell you that you're not enough, Yeah there are days that we all feel like we're messed up, But the truth is that we're all diamonds in the rough.

  Britt Nicole

  Truth Is, Enough, Diamond In The Rough

  Song: Gold, Album: Gold, 2012

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• I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters, I'll draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you're drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes.

  Dave Gibbons

  Jobs, Character, Drawing

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• One rough patch is not the big picture.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Rough Patches, Bigs, Big Picture

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.

  Isabel Allende

  Childhood, Age, Care

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• Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Games, Hell

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