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• It's a tough thing to know that when you're making your album, you're going to end up collaborating with, say, Wal-Mart, on your artwork. That just sucks. And the pressure behind getting the numbers real fast is, to me, dizzying.

  Ben Folds

  Real, Numbers, Pressure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'

  Alan King

  Father, Smart, Hero

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• It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do.

  James Robertson

  Dad, People, Tough Times

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• If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.

  Alan Arkin

  Stars, Community, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• I do have someone that I work with and she is amazing and I definitely don't have unmitigated abusive tendencies towards her. She is very sweet. I also know what that is like. I have heard my agent thinking he has hit mute on the phone before he, you know, physically unleashes broken glass and cellphones at his poor assistant. It is a tough job under the best of circumstances. I understand that.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Sweet, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's easy to be a tough competitor and still be the kind of person with whom people love to compete.

  Chuck Thompson

  People, Kind, Easy

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• Life is tough, but if you are stupid, it's a lot tougher.

  John Wayne

  Stupid, Life Is, Ifs

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• When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.

  Stephen Hawking

  Coffee, Naps, Break

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• Solutions to tough problems should be made as simple as possible - and no simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Problem, Made

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• There's all of this stuff where we have so much debate over nonsense; it could be cured if we had a better educational system, if we trained people to really try and look into things on their own. That's a tough thing to do, particularly with the educational system staggering.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Educational, People, Trying

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• It's a tough life if you don't weaken.

  Stephen King

  Tough Life, Ifs

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• We all know Gael - when he's at his best, it's tough to play.

  Grigor Dimitrov

  Play, Knows

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• I think art must be tough! I think art has to be hard. I don't think it should be easy. I think it should take foot-pounds of energy to produce that art, otherwise we would have more mediocre writers, and we don't have room for any more mediocrity in the world. There's already enough of it being visited on us night and day through the Internet, and through television, and through politics.

  Harlan Ellison

  Art, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed.

  Kirby Wright

  Love, Hopeful, Destroyed

  "Biography/Personal Quotes".

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• You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

  Herb Alpert

  Great Lyric, Melody, Sells

  "Jazz musician Herb Alpert". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 23, 2013.

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• Independence can be tough. Without a studio to back you up, when you finish a feature and want to start a new project you have to start from zero.

  Raul Garcia

  Zero, Independence, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When you are tough on yourself, life is inevitably easy. When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life Is, Easy, Difficult

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• When I'm scared - and I'm always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have to read a review, when I publish a book...then, I think of my grandfather. My grandfather was this strong, tough Basque who would never bend....What would he do? Well, he would go ahead, close his eyes, and drive forward. You do it and the spirit that is within you....is there.

  Isabel Allende

  Strong, Book, Eye

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• After 'Bhaji On The Beach', I didn't make a movie for six years. I couldn't get a movie off the ground for love nor money. It was a very tough time and I almost gave up. If I had been an Oxbridge bloke after 'Bhaji', my career would have been very different

  Gurinder Chadha

  Beach, Years, Careers

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• Toughness is a good thing, yet it is considered good only in men. When a woman is tough, men can't stand it. I like being tough and smart.

  Lillian Vernon

  Smart, Men, Tough Man

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• That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Kings, Book, Men

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• There's nothing tough about playing Third. All a guy needs is a strong arm and a strong chest.

  Frankie Frisch

  Strong, Guy, Needs

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• It was tough. That may happen at the Trials. You are so in the zone when you are in there it's tough running halfway down the track and having to come back. If it's in the rules then an athlete should be able to run under protest. Aries is not a guy that is know for false starts. Now I need to go and get ready for the Trials.

  David Oliver

  Running, Athlete, Track

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• I've done a lot of tough stories over the years. I've done a lot of profiles over the years that have not always been, shall we say, helpful for the person who is being written about.

  Mark Leibovich

  Years, Stories, Done

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The tough competition among German manufacturers makes us fundamentally strong.

  Martin Winterkorn

  Strong, Competition, Tough Competition

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn: 'People Act as though the Hybrid Could Solve all our Problems'". Interview with Dietmar Hawranek, Stefan Aust and Armin Mahler, www.spiegel.de. March 6, 2007.

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