Quotes About Adversity

Seasons just don't go easy all the way through.

I spent the first 15 years of my career in Seattle.

There was no real plan B. It was like, I'm gonna move back to Seattle and move in with my parents.

I think I can get back to a place where I'm more in control and there are small blips, as opposed to massive wobbles every two seconds.

We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.

My parents and friends, they're Ph.D.s that worked as custodians, that owned their own businesses, that went bankrupt, that moved seven times, that sent their kid to Harvard, that don't have any money for retirement. Highs and lows of life.

One of the biggest challenges we have, as business owners and people, is that we think in linear terms.

I went through a public divorce and wrote a project called '29' that really just is all about speaking your truth and owning the fact that we all go through things in life and it's all about what comes out of them.

I have been on the deathbed so many times and had to be given oxygen while training. I did not know if I would survive, but the roar of applause would lift me up.

If it weren't for 'Cuckoo's Nest,' it would be very difficult for me. It gave me a cushion to live at my artistic pace and not fear I wouldn't have money to live on.

If there are differences in the race pace it is normally because the tyre is overheating on my side.

When you go to Australia you are always asked whether you can perform in hostile environments against high pace and every Australian side I have played against has had guys bowling over 90mph.

When you aren't able to do what makes you dominant, what separates you from the pack, it can throw your mind off.

I've always felt that 'Dope' is a big movie in a little package.

Football: War with cleats and pads.

If we're losing, I probably won't be talking as much. I'll probably be more talking to my pads.

Whether it's one play in the NFL or 1,000 plays in the NFL, your pads will come off eventually.

I was told I would never win a pageant because I was too little. But not only did I win, but then when I was told I would never be able to model because I was a pageant girl, I became a model and I was successful at it.

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

Joy always came after pain.

I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not.

Life comes with pain.