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"It's one thing to be this 'tough chick,' but you also have to be likeable."
"I don't have a specific mantra; It's more about believing that I'm tough. I've been through a lot, and I'm not wiling to let myself get beat."
"We defended. We made them keep tough shots, and we executed offensively."
"We have to continue at a high level and make them take tough shots."
"I find acting tough, but sitting around chatting - that's easy."
"There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can."
"To run a successful business, you have to be tough."
"It was very tough with Madonna at the beginning of the meeting because I was very embarrassed. But I'm a strong woman who knows what I want and what I'm doing, and I think that when you have very clear ideas in your life, you can have conversations with everyone."
"Tough times teach trust."
"I'm going to be honest, playing in D-League games is tough."
"I think a lot of women are incredibly tough and they're just really admirable. Especially the way that, given what they've got, they just manage to carry on."
"Life is tough, but if you are stupid, it's a lot tougher."
"I don't think there's any shortage of tough, sometimes vicious rhetoric about President Barack Obama coming from the right. Talk radio shows dominated by conservatives."
"Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed."
"The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough."
"You hear about all the great British thespians doing stuff on the West End and that kind of thing, and I missed out on that. Alan Rickman actually suggested to me that I should try it. And I thought, "Geez, I really don't want to do that." But he must have recommended it for a reason, so when an opportunity came up, I took it. And it was tough. It was hard! But by the end of it, I absolutely loved it."
"Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack you."
"I went to high school in Indianapolis I learned how to walk around looking tough because everybody had to do that. I go out there occasionally and they're still doing it, walking around looking very tough because something might happen."