Quotes About Struggle

I've never been on a diet that lasted more than a day.

I've done every diet there is.

I had tried every diet out there - I would lose weight for a bit, then put it back on again.

It's so hard to diet because I love food.

I hate dieting. Let's just say that.

Why is it when you're dieting, you crave everything?

I hate dieting.

I hate cutting weight. I hate making weight. I hate dieting. But I'm going to make this weight. I can't wait to do that when I step on them scales.

Sometimes I'll feel content dieting - if I could only bottle that feeling!

Crazy diets, good diets, you can't name one I didn't do.

Diets don't really work for me.

No crash diets work. I have tried everything, believe me.

It's difficult to go on diets when you are a foodie.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Our country was hit on 9/11, 2001. Everybody in the world knows that. It hasn't been easy to deal with a different kind of enemy, but that is what we have, a different kind of enemy.

I talk about being a 'what' to people. Like, being gay in mainstream society is a different kind of 'what' than being black. They don't always jive. It's confusing and leads to these really awkward personal stories that have just been in me for awhile.

Wrestling has been a journey through life, connecting different parts of my life.

For a long time, they thought I had lupus, then they thought I had something else. Finally, when I couldn't walk, they did a spinal tap and conclusively diagnosed me with M.S.

I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.

That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.

To me, what I realized when we were doing 'Spinal Tap' - and the four of us wrote that - is, really, the core of that is the relationship with the two guys who grew up together and that strain when the girlfriend comes in. If that wasn't there, it's a very different movie. Then it's just bumbling guys stumbling along.

Honestly, I feel pretty awed anytime I meet just about any writer. I get how hard it is to write and make a living from it, but there's also this almost magical force you need to tap into, and I'm amazed by anyone who can do it.

You could put me on a stage in front of 100 people, and I could do a tap dance, but one-on-one was really difficult for me. And it took me most of my life to learn how to work with that anxiety, to embrace and be comfortable with it.

To call myself a fighter is to be selfish at times. It makes me resent my opponent. That's motivation I can tap into.