- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rough Quotes
Honest words about hard beginnings.
This rough quotes page collects candid reflections on difficult upbringings and challenging environments, including one speaker's honest admission about coming from a tough part of the Bronx. For more on early-life struggles, see our Childhood quotes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a person attacks, it's rough.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.
- Detailed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.
- Foreign Affairs
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- Nov 07, 2020
John Kerry is going to have a rough tenure as secretary of state. But let's face it: whoever came after Hillary Clinton was going to have to deal with a foreign affairs press corps that has been sleeping for four years. From the moment Hillary entered Foggy Bottom, political reporters have treated their beloved secretary of state with kid gloves.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to act as though my deployment was particularly rough, because it wasn't. I had a very mild deployment; I was a staff officer.
- Illiterate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a street-guy villain. I was a street-corner villain. I was an illiterate villain. All rough edges.
- Start
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020