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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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• I accept that appearance is a big thing in this business. But being around Hollywood and having actor friends and doing music videos, it does make you more aware of how you look. With music videos they send you rough cuts, and in certain frames of me, I just see a nose advert.

  Michael Bolton

  Cutting, Hollywood, Doe

  "Michael Bolton: I never realised my hair was such a big deal". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 12, 2008.

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• Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.

  Sam Ervin

  Light, Pathways, Burden

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• The way of the pioneer is always rough.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Pioneers, Way, Pioneering

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• Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

  George Chapman

  Life, Running, Wind

  George Chapman (1990). “The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron”, p.35, Manchester University Press

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• Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Errors, Two

  The Advancement of Learning bk. 1, ch. 5, sec. 8 (1605)

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• I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first rewrite, but some chapters I can't get quite right the third time. There are some I go over and over and over again.

  Robert Stone

  Writing, Trying, Firsts

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• If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine.

  Meat Loaf

  Play, Want, Violence

  Song: Masculine, 1986

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• Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.

  Mother Jones

  Strong, Hands, World

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• It's hard to get yourself into a position where someone will trust you to direct a film anyway, whatever sex you are. Certainly in England, the film set is a very male preserve. There's a lot of very rough looking men pushing equipment around that don't want the gaffer to be a girl.

  Colin Firth

  Girl, Sex, Men

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• We started out on the Internet, so I've been reading what people had to say about stuff since we were getting mean comments on iFilm, before we even had our site going. People are really, really rough on the web - that's their right, that's the whole point of it - but sometimes it can be a little bit brutal.

  Andy Samberg

  Reading, Mean, People

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. August 1, 2007.

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• The essence of seduction for me in a man, although it stems from his rough, almost rough-neck looks, still contains something of the woman: he must be seductive and intelligent.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Intelligent, Men, Essence

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.

  Sofia Coppola

  Dad, Cutting, My Dad

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• There's nothing sillier than fake rough edges, like the handheld camera you sometimes see on "NYPD Blue," shaking and jittering around, unmotivated, way more than any actual documentary camera would.

  Andrew Bujalski

  Fake, Sometimes, Shaking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Sometimes on a film you just become taken with the fact that, all right this is as rough as it gets, but I'm going to support my general and I'm going to do the very best I can for him because he's a good general and I like him.

  Danny Elfman

  Taken, Support, Facts

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a hollow, holey cylinder running from hilt to point in my machete. When I blow across the mouthpiece in the handle, I make music with my blade. When all the holes are covered, the sound is sad, as rough as rough can be and be called smooth. When all the holes are open, the sound pipes about, bringing to the eye flakes of sun on water, crushed metal. There are twenty holes. And since I've been playing music, I've been called all different kinds of fool - more times than Lobey, which is my name.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Running, Eye, Blow

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