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• With horror movies, a bigger budget is actually your enemy. You want to feel the rough edges, the handmade quality to good horror films. Its a genre that benefits from not having everything at your disposal.

  Drew Goddard

  Rough Edges, Enemy, Quality

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• I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Growing Up, Detroit, Grows

  Interview with Buzz Aldrin, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 30, 2012.

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• I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line. It's a weird way to move forward. It's kind of like a way to caterpillar your way through these great woods. The best ones, whatever I feel like I'm writing about, some other secret thing will begin to come into focus.

  Karen Russell

  Moving, Writing, Focus

  "Karen Russell’s Fantastical World". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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• No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.

  Nancy Thayer

  Light, Wind, Sea

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• Having a rough day? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? It's called purpose. You're alive for a reason. Don't give up

  Joyce Meyer

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Heart

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• I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.

  Helen Keller

  Taken, Mean, Eye

  "Three Days to See". Book by Helen Keller, 1933.

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• I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Mom, Kids, Feel Good

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• If you're rolling over rocks and stuff and you have a bigger wheel, it's going to stay out of the holes - rough sections become smoother.

  Aaron Gwin

  Rocks, Stuff, Wheels

  Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com. October 13, 2013.

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• What is this thing called a kiss? French, tongue, soul, chaste, motherly, fatherly, brotherly, sisterly, ass, genital, Judas, trembling, rough, hesitant, sweet, soft, wet, dying, fevered, good-night, farewell, burning, and chocolate.

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Good Night, Sweet, Farewell

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• In the peace process, the partner doesn't just sit and allow things to deteriorate to the point of disaster. The United States is needed with thoughts and with ideas, not only with the attitude of a messenger between parties, but - when things get rough - to come in and help with what is just and what is right, to overcome difficulty.

  King Hussein I

  Attitude, Party, Ideas

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• I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood. I often wish that I had the opportunity to make my own choices in life and choose my own path. But at the same time, I realize that things happen the way they're supposed to.

  Corey Feldman

  Opportunity, Choices, Childhood

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

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• I think Phil Collins is one of the most underrated musicians, singers, performers - he is absolutely amazing, I think, and I think he's probably got a bit of a rough ride occasionally because he became so mainstream and so popular.

  Rick Astley

  Thinking, Musician, Singers

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

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• Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  White, Trying, Dresses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.406, Harvard University Press

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• Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information technology are not necessarily wild-eyed. "Bit-twiddlers" are neither exactly proletariat nor bourgeoisie. They may not own the means of production in the sense that Marx argued, but they certainly do have significantly control over those means, in a more profound way than the term "symbols analysts" or "knowledge workers" captures. As a rough generalization, they value science and technological problem-solving elegance equally at least with profit.

  Steven Weber

  Mean, Technology, Class

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• Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the nest day - that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative” and before you know it, you're writing.

  Cory Doctorow

  Writing, Rough Edges, Creative

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• The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

  Ernest Renan

  Travel, Home, Ignorance

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• Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us.

  Joel Osteen

  Rough Edges, People, Use

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• The good thing about a film, or at least the films I've been a part of, is, no matter what happens in the end, you do the premiere and everyone's excited. You don't remember the rough times.

  Nate Parker

  Matter, Remember, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.

  Willa Cather

  Boys, Men, Hands

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, p.151, U of Nebraska Press

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• There is no love.
  There's only love of men and women, love
  Of children, love of friends, of men, of God:
  Divine love, human love, parental love,
  Roughly discriminated for the rough.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Children, Men

  Robert Frost (1949). “Complete Poems of Robert Frost: 1949”, New York : H. Holt

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• With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night
  That somehow the right is the right
  And the smooth shall bloom from the rough:
  Lord, if that were enough?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Hope, Night, Broken

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Songs of Travel: And Other Verses”, p.36, The Floating Press

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• On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others. An eccentric puts ice cream on steak simply because he likes it; should a crank do so, he would endow the act with moral grandeur and straightaway denounce as sinners (or reactionaries) all who failed to follow suit. Cranks, at their most familiar, are a sort of peevish prophets, and it's not enough that they should be in the right; others must also be in the wrong.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Men, Ice Cream, Law

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger, 1954.

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• Such is the fate of simple Bard,
  On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd

  Robert Burns

  Ocean, Fate, Simple

  Robert Burns, Gilbert BURNS, Allan Cunningham (1840). “The Works of Robert Burns. With Life by Allan Cunningham, and Notes by Gilbert Burns [and Others], Etc. [With a Portrait and Facsimiles.]”, p.239

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• Food is fuel and it keeps us going just like a car needs petrol. When you're running a car it's important to think about what fuel you're putting in because if you put in the rough stuff, what's going to happen? The car's going to slow down and perform badly because you've neglected it.

  William Katt

  Running, Thinking, Car

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• America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.

  Henry Rollins

  America, Might, Way

  Source: emptylighthouse.com

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