#tough

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#strength #tough-times #inspirational

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#am #because #bottom #bottom line #business

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#comparatively #creativity #easy #formulaic #generating

I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart. ↗

— Emily Watson

#attention #because #calculating #figuring #generally

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there. ↗

— Paul Allen

#hung #some #times #tough #tough times

Leadership demands that we make tough choices. ↗

— Alan Autry

#demands #leadership #make #tough #tough choices

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults. ↗

— Brian Baird

#appeal #back #courage #goal #government

The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision. ↗

— Haley Barbour

#fund #medicaid #more #tough #tough decision

In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make. ↗

— Nick Stahl

#been #brutal #darker #doing #experience

Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#age #any #big #challenge #even