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• I was obliged to take tough, painful and bold decisions to ensure a manageable tomorrow.

  Nicos Anastasiades

  Decision, Tomorrow, Painful

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• Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'

  Bill Nighy

  Play, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with your friends and family to find out the answer to a tough question or have someone explain it to you. You can also study anywhere you happen to be and on any device.

  Eric Lefkofsky

  Tough Questions, Family And Friends, Answers

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• I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.

  Brad Gilbert

  Player, Switzerland, Would Be

  Interview with Nima Naderi, tennisconnected.com. April 8, 2010.

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• Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.

  David Plotz

  New York, Writing, Demand

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Honestly, I don't recommend anyone get into music. If you have something else that you're good at, do that instead. This is a really tough world to live in.

  Skylar Grey

  World, Honestly, Ifs

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

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• The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Government, Economic Sanctions, Serious

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• There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Opponents, Looks, Competitors

  "The Busted Racquet Interview: Caroline Wozniacki". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. March 8, 2011.

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• I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.

  Dana Hill

  Years, Planning, Medication

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• I think the most important thing is authenticity, just being as real as I can be. But also flexible and open to change and other ideas and thought processes. Back when you and I last talked, I was at a turning point in my life, and I was having a tough time. I was hiding it, but I had a really hard time just being me. So now it's important that I'm just me.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Real, Hard Times, 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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• I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.

  Alexander Dolgun

  Death, Pain, Dying

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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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• Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Mistake, Thinking, Play

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW: Ellen Malcolm: The Woman Behind All Those Women Candidates". Interview with Jacob Weisberg, articles.latimes.com. November 8, 1992.

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• That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor.

  Scott McCallum

  Regret, Decision, Looks

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• I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Transition, Aggressive

  "Immersed in Movies: Jennifer Yuh Nelson Lifts Kung Fu Panda 2" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. December 7, 2011.

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• А weekly column is really tough.

  David Plotz

  Columns

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Who's got the most heartbreaking voice? I don't know. Tough question.

  J. Robbins

  Voice, Tough Questions, Heartbreaking

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• To me, Jeb Bush is hitting his stride. He was the most composed, the most endpoint, the most in control, I've seen him in an interview yet. And it's not because I wasn't asking him tough questions

  Jeb Bush

  Tough Questions, Asking, Hitting

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

  Jeremy Piven

  Running, Long, Sometimes

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

  Lance Armstrong

  Teamwork, Regret, Dodgeball

  "Fictional character: Lance Armstrong". "DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story", 2004.

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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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• Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.

  Susana Martinez

  Gone, Answers, Want

  "New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez Assails Romney's Immigration Views" by Elizabeth Llorente, www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2012.

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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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• In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

  William Levy

  Giving, Cuba, Months

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