Quotes About Struggle

Being the house ethnic was destroying my life and my sense of myself, because I had been consigned to play every dusky maiden you have ever seen in your life in movies.

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

Lee Rang was abandoned by love, so he's a character who has a deep desire for destruction.

Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.

The biggest thing is separation from family. It's a huge burden to carry and destructive in a lot of ways.

I knew people were going to see me see deteriorate before their eyes.

It's hard to see your wife deteriorate in front of your eyes.

My back was starting to deteriorate and basically what happened was I just couldn't walk after a couple of matches here and there. I never had an MRI and I never knew what was going on in my body for so long, and then it was coming to point where I was always wrestling and not being able to walk after.

With this sort of career, you need determination. You've got to sacrifice a lot of things: family, friends - not that I had any - but you sacrifice everything.

Change is hard and requires constant struggle and determination.

It's particularly exhausting because Medea is defined by her determination. The role is all about endeavour.

If you take somebody that never had anything and all they knew was hard work and determination and then you give them something, that's why I do what I do.

The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.

In any relationship, when you go through any big change, you struggle to find your new constellation, your new ground. It takes a while to determine what the new relationship between you is.

My dad didn't believe that I was going to make it through school, and that was the only thing I was determined to do, because he said that I wasn't going to do it.

My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.

The reason 'Detox' didn't come out was because I didn't like it.

Detroit is a hard city.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

When I made 'Detroit vs. Everybody,' I knew. I knew this for Eminem.

I grew up in the city of Detroit, where things were just bad.

After my conviction, I was devastated. I had never believed that I would be convicted.