You know, I have got quite a husky, gritty voice which people say – even when I’m talking nicely – does sound a bit rough.
Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you would a piece of pottery or a stone sculpture, chipping away the parts that don’t make sense, smoothing over the rough edges.
I’m not actually posh; I’m really rough and from the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up in Putney, which is pretty rough.
I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called ‘Anacoluthon.’ This will make the public think it is an historical romance.
I like YouTube; it’s really entertaining. A lot of it is crappy stuff, but there are a couple diamonds in the rough there.
You know, I came in as a rookie and didn’t get to play much at all, really. Became a sponge. I had to go through the rough, get cut a couple times, take the G-league route, which was the D-league back then.
You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you’re trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try.
When I started there was this consensus that you could never clean this up, that the problem is way too big, the ocean is way too rough, the issue of bycatch – ‘plastic is too big, plastic is too small.’
We all have ups and downs in our career, and as an actor going through a rough patch, all I can do is keep working as hard as I can and hope for the best.
I was a rough kid. And this is all I ever wanted to do. I never wanted to be an astronaut. I didn’t want to do anything else but box.
The farm uses up a lot of my creative urges. It’s a sort of rough and ready space, I don’t film there.
My first film would have been ‘Rough,’ and it got delayed. ‘Venkatadri Express’ released first and became a big success. I signed ‘Venkatadri’ after 15 days of shooting for ‘Rough’. I had lot of faith in the script, and I feel luck plays a major part.
I have learnt that life is full of ups and downs. And even though I’ve had rough times, I can’t complain.
It had been an odd, kind of rough year for me when ‘CSI’ ended.
The last decade has been a little rough, so I’m hoping to start this one on the right foot.
Toward the end of the ’90s, it got pretty rough for me – a lot of emotional unrest and problems with my relationships. That affected my career.
The first time I saw Peter Green play was at the Club Rado, which was a very rough club in Belfast, and at that time he’d just replaced Eric in the Bluesbreakers. I’d gone up there to sort of hang out and see if I could meet this guy Peter Green, because I’d read about him and everything.
These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.
My Instagram got deleted a lot of times. I used to do rough jokes and curse a lot.
A common misperception of me is… that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I’m pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It’s the parts that you play I guess. I don’t mind it. I’m not a tough guy. I’d like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.
I like being a woman, but I’m a little rough around the edges. I’ve been bungee jumping twice, but I was scared.
Sometimes things feel hopeless. Not always within my own life – but looking outward, it seems like rough times lie ahead of us. The world seems to be kind of caving in on itself in a lot of ways. But I try to look on the bright side.
My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.
White America is tortured by black America’s failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a substantial quota of white America loses its own footing in the middle class and plunges into the rough country of joblessness, hopelessness, and government dependency.
I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.
I grew up in a rough neighborhood, so I fought a lot. Even when I was wrestling, if I lost a match, I always thought, That guy would never beat me in a fight.
I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the ’70s and ’80s.
My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
I would love to have gotten into it with Harley Race. He was such a good wrestler and rough and tough. We wrestled at the same time but never each other. And wrestling Sting would have been something I would have enjoyed.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Fitting in is unnecessary. Embrace who you are. You will go through rough times in high school, but always stay strong, and never deny yourself!
I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.
One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can’t go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, that’s gone to oil!
When I go to America, I’m fortunate enough to stay in the nicer areas but the last time I went there – to New York last October, November – I went and explored. I went to the rough areas – to Brooklyn, Harlem, the Bronx; I walked around and you see it first-hand, what life is like out there.
I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn’t a difficult thing to pull out.
I look like a ‘Sesame Street’ character in real life when I wake up. But not like the cute ones, like kind of like the ones that look a little rough around the edges.
School was kind of rough for me. People weren’t always the nicest with what I was doing.
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That’s probably why I liked the athletic part of skating – especially the jumping!
Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
Everyone can have a rough day at the office, as they say. I’ve had those myself many times when the bell rings.
I always have a rough outline, but I’m shocked at how little I actually follow it. Those characters keep doing things that I never expected. I think if I crept up to my keyboard and peeked, they’d be talking about things behind my back. Okay, that’s a little paranoid and delusional… but just a little.
Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
I always wanted to do what my brothers were doing. I always wanted to play the games they played and play rough and wear pants and go outside.
I guess we go through multiple rough patches in all of our relationships.
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.
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is ‘The Book of British Birds,’ and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
Our Heavenly Father expects the best from each of us. We must believe in ourselves. Don’t give in when the going gets rough. You are laying the foundation of a great work, and that great work is your life.
I’m usually rough during Spring Training. My Spring Training numbers aren’t very good, but I never expect them to be.
I’ve gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don’t really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.
All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.
I remember, in middle school, I went to four different schools. That was a rough patch. But it’s also what shaped me as a person.
I’m absolutely fine with the rough and tumble of politics.
The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements of the Inca civilisation.
I know first-hand how hard it is to start a business. Those first few years are rough.
I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.
I’m not writing about the 1 percent of people who have this fairy-tale, amazing life. I’m writing about people like me, who maybe had a rough childhood.
Caricature is rough truth.
Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
