Quotes About Struggle

I got lost in the music in 1963 at Stonewall... No! No, it was Stonewall - it was 1967 that I got lost. In 19 - oh my dear, Stonewall, I got lost at Stonewall. Heard it through the grapevine. 1969! I got lost in the music and I couldn't get out.

I've been lucky enough to love dearly the people I cared for, but even then there were times when I thought, 'I can't bear any more.'

You want to go to your deathbed saying, 'I didn't sell out.' But it's a tough business to keep to what you believe in and get through and do well.

We don't really see a lot of war movies about the people that are left behind, dealing with the deaths of those who serve and the sacrifices they make.

The Church must actualize, be present in the public debate, in our struggle for a true concept of liberty and peace.

For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes.

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

For too many of our young people, that once-promised American dream has given way to an American debt burden and a bleak job market.

We all think we're going to get out of debt.

Both on an individual and a national scale, debt imprisons.

When you have a debt that's strangling you, you're not growing.

Growing up, it was just me and my mom. I watched her struggle for 17 years, and when I was 19, I got a chance to pay off all of her debt after two paychecks. That's a crazy feeling.

I put myself in debt to get to the NBA.

I had over $3 million in medical debt as an 18-year-old.

I have too many debts with the wrong people.

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

Debut novels are difficult because nobody knows you... they just don't find a huge audience, because that's how the market works.

Getting that debut film is definitely harder than someone who has got a known last name. I mean some star kids don't even audition.

When you don't come from a film background, getting the right debut is important and difficult, as you don't have the sensibility to know what will work and what won't.

My debut film was a hit, but I never benefited from it.

In the 1990s, when I made my debut, an artiste would get easily stereotyped. So I only got the roles of didis, bhabhis, chachis and buas.

I was very young when I made my debut, I was almost like a kid getting that kind of success and adulation which was difficult to cope.

I don't know anybody who doesn't have a lost decade.

I know what it feels like to have a talent and not be able to use it for almost half a decade.