Quotes About Perseverance

'Senna' took five years, 'Amy' took three years. You try and say, 'Look, there's no deadline.' That's important. Just saying, 'We've got to make the film. And once the film's ready, it will be out there.'

It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can.

I really wanted to change the idea of what is possible and to show that 'deaf can' and what better place to do that than on national television?

I'm totally deaf in my right ear, yeah.

Growing up, I never thought about becoming an actress because I never saw deaf people in TV or movies. I didn't think it was possible.

Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

'The Awakening' is meant to be listened to in its entirety. Every song ultimately explores a character dealing with life, making mistakes, fighting, trying. But we also live in a singles-type world, and it works on that level, too.

Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.

I feel older than I really am. It's because of the cards I was dealt.

I've dealt my entire career with sexist and condescending people.

I've dealt with many challenges in my life, with my family.

The books are like children in that having written one doesn't make writing the next one any easier, because it's a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it.

I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.

When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.

When you've dealt with real-life issues, dealing with business issues is not that hard.

Every once in awhile, we all get a bad hand dealt to us.

I've dealt with a lot in my life.

I have to play the hand that was dealt me.

I've dealt every day of my life with my dad's career, the comparisons to him, with people wanting me to live up to him. I just put that stuff out of my head, I don't even hear it after awhile - I just turn my ears off.

Often in fighting, you get dealt certain cards and that's what you have to work with.

I want to do the best I can with the situation I'm dealt.

I went from a D student to the dean's list.

I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me from the beginning, you know, as a loser in a 1972 Dodge Dart with the bumper literally duct-taped to the body.