I was an only child, a hard-case kid, in a rough neighborhood. But I always fought my battles.
I went through a lot of feelings of self-doubt and loss of self-esteem. I was particularly vulnerable after having my son. It was rough getting back on my feet in the business.
My father, a bakery-truck driver, was the epitome of the work ethic that probably kept me knocking out columns six days a week for a rough total of 12,600 over 50 years.
Life is all about how things rough up against you and how you see them and the vantage point you have from them.
I did rough hustling, what they call ‘playing against the wall.’ I just played myself with the players, so I would pay; I would make them shill. I would pay certain players and then take from others.
See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!
I am not a very rough and tough kind of a girl, rather a little sensitive. I believe in unicorns, dreams and dolls.
It’s not how you start, even with a rough upbringing. It’s what you make of it after.
My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.
The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the macro economy is like a large ocean liner, very ponderous and difficult to maneuver but without such a rough journey.
I need to show my son that when things get hard and rough – not if, when – you have to keep going; you have to move forward.
Every fight has its rough spots, and I’m always looking for improve every facet.
Most girls are taught to avoid risk and failure. We’re taught to smile pretty, play it safe, get all A’s. Boys, on the other hand, are taught to play rough, swing high, crawl to the top of the monkey bars, and then just jump off headfirst.
I guess I’m a romantic. Call me rough and romantic. Girls like that.
My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved.
I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front ‘rough guide’. I thought: ‘Yeah’ she’s not a looker.
I’ve been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I’m not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
My life was pretty rough.
In the rough and tumble world of business, media, or politics, the black knitted tie is indeed indispensable.
In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
I think being a young female star must be really, really pretty rough.
I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they’re existing characters, I’ll draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you’re drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes.
I came from a good family and a nice area, but I went to a rough state school.
I hope that I never have to work in a place that sells large quantities of jeans ever again. Jeans are rough! It used to kill my hands. I know that sounds prissy – I’m not prissy at all. But it did; it killed my hands. It was awful.
Life is a process of change, everything is changing: your relationship, your behind, everything is always in flux, so if you get attached to what you looked like at 20, then youre in for a really rough ride.
Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.
School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn’t so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature – anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in.
Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it’s rough out there. But the bottom line is you’ve got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I’m totally addicted to traveling.
I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.
I grew up in a rough area, went to an all-black school, public school.
We usually never got out of there before four or five o’clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
It’s not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough.
My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.
But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!
If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of character.
When I tell my husband stories of how I’ve grown up, he can’t relate to it. I like it though, yeah, it’s a badge of honour. You’re from Up North, you’ve got to be a tiny bit rough round the edges. That’s the charm!
I had a pretty rough life. I got caught up in the star syndrome. It’s not something I’m proud of, but it’s something that I’m glad is over.
I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, ‘If you talk to her, I’ll kill you.’ It’s always rough with that high school thing.
I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn’t go down well.
I think Phil Collins is one of the most underrated musicians, singers, performers – he is absolutely amazing, I think, and I think he’s probably got a bit of a rough ride occasionally because he became so mainstream and so popular.
I’ve always been the type of person that has told friends, if they’re going through a rough time, I’m always there to talk to.
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.
Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that’s out of control. It always seems to happen. But they’ve gotten better about the height of the rough.
I went to a really diverse and wonderful school in inner-city Pittsburgh, where all the various groups and types of people got along pretty great, and a lot of interesting stuff was going on all the time – and I still hated high school. It’s just a rough, rough period in one’s life.
I – my experience was really no different from any other immigrant that came to this country. It was rough.
You know, we’ve had some pretty rough festival stages.
I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn’t like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn’t like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.
My look and my character come from my experiences as a child. I wasn’t allowed to have girl toys, and I grew up poor. I also had a rough relationship with my stepdad.
Personally, I like drag that’s a little rough around the edges, drag you can run around in it, drag you can get in the Uber without worrying about!
I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.
Leave part of the yard rough. Don’t manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
California has a beautiful coastline. It can be a rough coastline. The waves are huge. The rocks are steep. Same thing in Vancouver. It has a beautiful coastline. It’s dramatic.
I’m pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year.
When you are having a rough day… you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It’s about building character and growing.
I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.
My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn’t know what I was doing half the time.
My dad and uncle were so protective so whenever someone would say or do something to harm us they were right there. They were very shy but you cross a line with them and the temper can get quite rough.
When I’m having a really rough day, I take it out in the gym. It releases so many endorphins in your body.
I was a street-guy villain. I was a street-corner villain. I was an illiterate villain. All rough edges.
I never thought I’d be anything, coming from a rough neighborhood. So my character was built on the street. I had to know how to carry myself; I had to act like I was older than I was.
