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  • I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.
  • Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

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  • Bobby Bowden A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Bill Kurtis A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Simone Weil A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Bryan Cogman After we map out all the main characters' individual arcs, using color-coded index cards, we arrange them by episode and get a rough idea of the scene order.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Queen Elizabeth I Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • George Meredith Caricature is rough truth.
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Bjork Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Epictetus Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Samuel Butler Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Billy Sunday God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
    Billy Sunday speaks (1970)
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Andrew Morton He's a TV producer, a theatrical impresario, and he wants to be treated as Mr. Windsor but when the going gets rough he wants to be treated like a member of the Royal Family.
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  • Virginia Woolf I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Benito Mussolini I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
    Quoted in The New Inquistions by Arthur Versluis
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Pythagoras If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Vikram Seth Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Beau Willimon It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Juvenal Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Benjamin Booker Music helped me to get out of a rough period in my life when I really struggled to see any future for myself and was terrified about what was happening to the people around me.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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