Tough Quotes - Page 11

• All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.

  Fay Weldon

  Mother, Children, Eye

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• The tough-minded ... respect difference. Their goal is a world made safe for differences, where the United States may be American to the hilt without threatening the peace of the world, and France may be France, and Japan may be Japan on the same conditions.

  Ruth Benedict

  Japan, Differences, Goal

  Ruth Benedict (2006). “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.

  Juliana Spahr

  Girl, Mother, Writing

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• This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes much wiser over a period time passing. It is not something that is injected into him by a needle. It is not something that comes on a wave of flashing, explosive light one night and say, 'Huzzah! Eureka! I've got it!' and then proceeds to write the great American novel in eleven days. It doesn't work that way. It's a long, tedious, tough, frustrating process, but never, ever be put aside by the fact that it's hard.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Night, Light

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• Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough. And I'm trying to earn my spot on the team. I'm trying to earn a starting spot. I'm trying to become a complete midfielder who attacks, who defends. So that's the mindset.

  Carli Lloyd

  Team, Dirty, Play

  Source: www.slate.com

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• No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

  Fanny Fern

  Bread, Dependence

  Fanny Fern (1986). “Ruth Hall and Other Writings”, p.319, Rutgers University Press

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• Sure, theater is tough because you're not home at night a lot and you work on weekends - every job has its downside. But to do something that you love doing for two hours a night, that's a pretty sweet gig.

  Robert Sean Leonard

  Sweet, Jobs, Home

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• Women are called difficult and tough when (1) we negotiate the best deal, (2) we are perfectionists in doing our job, (3) we are willing to work harder and longer than men are willing to, and (4) when we question anything - anything - that someone else is doing, particularly if that someone is a man.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Jobs, Hard Work, Men

  Georgette Mosbacher (1994). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within You to Create the Life You Deserve”, Touchstone

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• I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot.

  Scott Adkins

  Character, Guy, Type

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There aren't really many compliments flying around with me and my friends. It's a lot of tough love. But you know, that love is there and if you need to have a serious conversation you just gotta wait for the right time to do it.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Love Is, Waiting, Flying

  "A Candid Chat With Mark Wahlberg". ABC News Interview, abcnews.go.com. September 29, 2006.

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• Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget thats actually not the point at the end of the day.

  Ewan McGregor

  Frustration, The End Of The Day, Stuff

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• If youve ever lived in Chicago, anyone who has, they know what a winter in Chicago is like. To be going through a tough time here in the winter would be just be all the more worse.

  Lee DeWyze

  Winter, Tough Times, Chicago

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• There are these important things in some people's lives that can make you laugh even when you're going through a tough time or a stressful week.

  Gillian Jacobs

  People, Laughing, Tough Times

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• In order to pay it's got to be a pretty big winner. But if it's a big hit from a financial standpoint, then next year you've got a very tough comparison.

  Bill Vaughan

  Order, Years, Pay

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• If you're upset with how you look at 25, life's going to be tough.

  Susan Sarandon

  Upset, Looks, Ifs

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• These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.

  James McNerney

  Negative, Unusual, Economic

  "3M Plans to Cut 1,000 More Jobs". www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2002.

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• I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.

  Kurt Browning

  Sports, People, Skating

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• I have a tough time judging myself.

  Joan Jett

  Judging, Tough Times, Judging Myself

  "A Minute With: Joan Jett on life as a 'Runaway'". Interview with Bob Tourtellotte, www.reuters.com. March 18, 2010.

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• It was tough doing 'Underneath the Lintel' in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was great, but off-stage was difficult.

  Richard Schiff

  Jersey, Stage, Difficult

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it's fun. While it's happening it's fun. I feel tall.

  Ariana Grande

  Hurt, Fun, High Heels

  "We Sent Two of Ariana Grande's Biggest Fans to Interview Her - Come See What Happened!". www.glamour.com. September 5, 2013.

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• I think having Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is going to send a very wonderful lesson to the American public that women can be strong, they can be tough, they can be effective, and they can lead this country as political leaders.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Country, Strong, Thinking

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• My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another.

  Hiam Abbass

  Teenager, Issues, Identity

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• Life as a voice actress is tough. It's not an easy career.

  Lucille Bliss

  Careers, Voice, Actresses

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• I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Age, Periods, Deals

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