Quotes About Perseverance

For me, as a kid desperate to make music, I thought the only way I could do it was to try to be a superstar - which is a fun thing to be, but it can be exhausting and degrading.

Rob Doherty has been a real superstar for us on 'The Mentalist' for years.

I'm fantasizing about being the best superstar I can be and improving.

Honestly, I was a little bit arrogant because I came in and thought it was going to be easy and that I'd be on television in a year, no problem. Then you realize how many different things it takes to become a successful superstar, and it really is a rude awakening.

I am taking my whole experience of working in 'Super 30' as fabulous, that a girl who started her career with television got a film like 'Love Sonia' and then could work with a superstar like Hrithik Roshan. I want to value this journey.

I want to be a superstar in the junior middleweight division.

I don't give a damn, I am a NXT Superstar.

I ain't no superstar.

There are superstars that deserve to be at the top and do give everything.

I didn't want to be one of these superstars that just come and then just disappear.

When we were playing, it was rough and tough. Even superstars like me fouled out a lot.

Growing up, we were pretty much focused on becoming WWE superstars.

Inside of me, it was like my soul and what I had to do to feed my family was always split. I was writing lyrics while I was supposed to be working. I'd look up, and there's my supervisor.

My mom had been a script supervisor in Hungary, but you can't just jump into that in Canada without knowing any English. She worked retail jobs and raised my sister and me while learning English.

When I was doing 'In the Heights,' I was the co-music supervisor for 'The Electric Company' on PBS, so I was writing songs all day, doing the show, staying up until 3 A. M. Writing more songs, recording demos in the intermission in my dressing room.

It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every day because, basically, if I had it my way, I'd just stay home and think about what I'm having for supper.

When the results weren't coming on the snooker table, I tried to supplement things by gambling on horses even more.

I don't know what it's like to be Cuban-American, but I know what it's like to have family under Communism and to get up early in the morning and send medical supplies and try to send food and try to send money and have it intervened, and them calling and crying on the phone.

Before 'MOOO!' there were times when I was definitely at a low. I wasn't getting that much support from people around me.

I had to realize that you can't try to get money, support yourself, and grind doing whatchu need to do at the same time. The music is the grind. You really gotta grind. You gotta find your way around. You can't be stuck tryna get there.

My family has always been there to support me along the way. My coach, John Nicks, is a great influence.

There will always be people who will support us, and there will always be naysayers.

A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They have a strong enough support system to keep going and keep moving forward. And some people, they feel like they don't have that outlet.

The biggest thing, and what I told some of the partners in the summit, was me thanking them for their constant support with everything that I've been through the last couple years on and off the court.