Quotes About Struggle

Those who belong to the film families may have a certain advantage, but nobody can keep you in this business if you don't deserve it.

'12 Years a Slave' was very powerful, very moving, and deserved all of the acclaim it did get.

I felt like I deserved a title shot a few times in the UFC and was kind of passed over.

Conflicts are multiplying - people are suffering. But we don't give up, because we know every man, woman, and child deserves a life of peace.

Everybody deserves the opportunity to fight and fight with everything that they're given.

I was an absolutely untalented designer.

It's a constant battle being a plus-size designer.

It's tough to be a designer. It is really tough to be a Canadian designer.

I wanted to be anything but a designer. I was not willing to enroll into fashion school. It is just because that was the last resort and there was nothing else, I had to do it!

I got sick of being famous. It is not a desirable 'job.'

When your brain and body stop working, it turns into hell. Death is at that point desired. It's the best thing that can happen.

I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.

I was terrible at desk jobs.

I can't say that while I sat at my desk cold calling or trying to help people re-mortgage that playing for England was a real achievable goal.

The people who talk on the edgier 'Song Exploder' have often made their entire record on their desktop. It's never been easier to compete, but it's never been harder to win, either.

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

Having a wife and kids drove home the brutal reality of the slave system for me - the price it exacted on families. On the other hand, whenever I despair over our history, I am brought back to hope, the hope that things will get better, for my children.

Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.

And there are a lot of people like that, who feel loneliness and despair but cover it up.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

I'm not the kind of person that would step on people just to get where I wanted to be, but I have crossed moral boundaries when I've either been afraid or desperate.