“It was tough to write. We had the shadow of "Lost" hanging around and I just kept saying, "Guys, we need to take a really wide birth around 'Lost.' We're going to get lots of comparisons anyway, but we need to prove, within a couple episodes, that it's not 'Lost.'"” NeedsWritingGuyLostBirthCoupleProveShadowToughWideComparisonEpisodesHanging Around Author:Remi Aubuchon
“I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.” ShouldGuyProveToughPredatorTough Guy Author:Mr. T
“I think the energy I give off is quite non-confrontational. That's something you learn from karate. Once you try to be a tough guy, you've got to pay up. You've got to prove yourself. And that's exhausting.” ThinkingGivingTryingGuyEnergyPayProveToughExhaustingKarateTough GuyProving Yourself Author:Dolph Lundgren
“It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.” ThinkingWayHeartMayChildrenShowsDreamRealityAbleDifficultBreakMinutesProveOceanBeatsToughWingsLifetimeTinyTricksMusclesRemarkableEggsHallsFragileDelicateButterflyLoadSeventiesHurricanesRight PlaceMarblePumpsIntangibleFragile Things Author:Neil Gaiman