#tough

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin. ↗

— Jane Campion

#develop #experience #film-making #first #grow

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough. ↗

— Jane Campion

#doubts #full #keats #often #poems

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#had #humor #i #indicated #know

Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son. ↗

— Chris Christie

#am #bluntly #brother #children #could

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#characters #decisions #extreme #extremes #i

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#does #down #extent #fall #go

The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer. ↗

— George Clooney

#confuses #even #every #every time #film

Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia. ↗

— Robert Forster

#australia #having #left #look #mmm

Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#could #dissecting #figure #first #having

I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#comb #concert #flannel #hair #i