I grew up in Harlem in New York, very rough, urban environment, and so what I found is that, if I can have kids travel to different places, countries, areas, it can expand their minds.
Where I live in Oklahoma, it’s all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.
‘Rednecks’ always made me nervous to play, but I’m glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It’s just that the language is so rough.
I love the sea, and I never mind when it’s rough.
I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.
The truth is, I’m just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
I went through some pretty rough patches in my life, and I’ve come out of them a stronger, more inspired, and energetic person.
I’m pretty rough around the edges, but I’m a very open person.
When things could’ve gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we’d be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you’re kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.
I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.
Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
I had a very rough upbringing.
Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar sounds decades older than he is, and it’s not necessarily the wear and tear that comes from a rough life; instead, his world-weariness seems to result from years of soul-searching.
The whole of Cornwall has become antiseptic. When I was growing up in St. Austell, the county was wonderfully rough and workish. These days it is polite and Disney-fied.
We can’t avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.
The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 1898, and Roosevelt became a Texas folk hero overnight.
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.
My dad was very rough with us.
When I go back to Essex, where I grew up, I’m still appalled by the homophobia and casual racism and aggression. I live in Lewisham, in south London, and though it might look a bit rough, it’s a diverse, friendly neighbourhood.
People were consuming on average less calories after the war than during the war. Things were still very tough. If you look at the film footage of London streets, even in areas which weren’t slums, there are kids in the streets who are dirty and have no shoes on. It was rough. There was a real edge.
It’s a beautiful thing, the desire to help a fellow human who is maybe in a rough spot.
A rough beginning doesn’t have to mean there is a rough end.
My dad has a lot of foresight and decided that I would not do any shows in Mumbai till I became a singer and got to sing my own songs. He knew that if I started earning money from shows, I would not have the time and aggression to rough it out to become a singer.
I feel like athletes lean into this indestructible character. But unless you’re doing something really shady, no one nails every day of their life. You’re always going to have rough patches.
I’m really tired of making these huge, over-$100 million movies where they literally mean life and death for a studio. It’s really rough making these expensive movies. Everyone is hysterical.
Ben Schwartzwalder was a decent guy, but he was from another era. He was like a Marine, with a real army attitude. He thought there was only one way to play football, and that was the rough way.
For like a year, even after I retired, my ear would just bleed. There was just some scar tissue on it that tore open so many times that it just started bleeding all the time. It’s rough on the wife, she has to keep washing the sheets again and again.
I’m a black belt in karate. I grew up on the outskirts of Paris, and it was rough.
Politics isn’t a reality show or a gong show. It’s not show business for ugly people. It’s the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.
If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I’m going to wear him out.
I love my bandmates, and they’re my friends, and even though we had fun and got to tour and I got to play the drums a lot, which I’ll always appreciate, we had a really rough time. We toured and tried to get people to come to our shows and put out records, and we really struggled.
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
I’d had a rough childhood.
I worked for a smoothie company, and that was rough. I also sold women’s shoes for a very long time. That was super rough.
People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they’re not enough and not amounting to anything and they don’t feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody’s pretending it’s not true, and we need to break that veneer.
Despite being an ocean apart, New York’s ESG and France’s Lizzy Mercier Descloux were shooting for roughly the same idea: disco beats with a rough and energetic presentation.
It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, ‘Why am I so black?’ And she said, ‘Because I’m black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.’
I have definitely had a big impactful change since 2010, and it’s rough to look in the mirror, but it’s such an important thing to do that.
I grew up in a pretty rough neighborhood, Paramount, California, outside of L.A., like near Compton, that’s where I’m from.
I always say that life is not easy for anybody. People hear about the young actors who have a rough life, but there are plenty of other kids who aren’t actors who have a rough time, too, and I don’t know if the ratio is any different.
So I got a chance to meet a whole bunch of those old real, real rough but gentle men. They lived hard, but they lived good – in one sense, you know. But you had a lot of fun. Didn’t make much money, but you had a lot of fun.
You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
I think, as a skater, I started out really strongly, and as I have grown in the public eye, I have had my rough seasons that most people don’t get as much attention for.
Seeing your parents fall apart is really rough. I wouldn’t wish it on anybody.
I was lucky to have made it to 23 before my world fell apart, but when it did, I had no idea how to survive. It was a rough year. I cried – a lot. I complained – a lot. I also wrote – a lot.
Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
In the neighborhood where I grew up, it was a rough neighborhood – well, not rough, but it certainly wasn’t upper class or anything. But I remember hearing things like, ‘The little man just can’t get ahead.’ And if you start to believe that, then you know what? You don’t get ahead.
I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I’m kind of grateful I’ve got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.
With Mr. Bungle, I’d lay down a really rough demo of my vocals and then play them for the guys without telling them what I was saying. Our drummer at the time had the coolest takes on what he thought I was saying, so I’d ask him to write out what he thought the lyrics were.
I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.
In ‘Deadliest Catch,’ we have men in ships in rough seas catching crabs. With ‘Whale Wars,’ we have men and women from a dozen different nations going out to sea in rough weather to help save the whales. We also have icebergs, whales, penguins, and dramatic ship-to-ship confrontations.
People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn’t mean that I can’t make something of myself.
It was a real rough year and a half. I was getting 80 shots every four weeks.
In most of his films, Upendra has a harsh and rough demeanor, and Sudeep also has a very massy commercial image. In ‘Mukunda Murari,’ though, their characters require them to be very different and near silent.
