Quotes About Struggle

People just don't know what civilian prisoners of war are.

Death row prisoners face enormous challenges in finding lawyers who will assist them.

People who end up in our prisons tend to come from the most difficult backgrounds. They did not have the parental support as they grew up, as many of us enjoyed, and they struggle when they leave prison.

It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact.

I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.

I really fight for my privacy.

When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.

As much as we're out here performing, I think it's necessary that we have our times of privacy as well when things aren't going our way.

I surrendered all my privacy to write this book. It was so hard and so painful. I went through so much crazy stuff. But I wanted people to realize that North Koreans are just like them.

Private life is always, at certain times, a challenge.

All my life, people have been telling me what to do. I'm tired of it. My private life has become an industry.

I wanted my private life to be private. I just wanted to be a fighter.

I just had one occasion in my life when suddenly my private life was everywhere, and that was an accident and beyond my control.

As difficult as it can be to have your private life plastered all over the press and on social media every day, I guess the one plus side is that it is like a looking glass for other women to look in and relate to.

I definitely think people think celebrities have it easy. I think they have it twice as hard as someone going to a nine-to-five sitting in an office because they can keep their private life to themselves.

It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.

I'm actually a very private person. Sometimes I'm in denial that I'm really famous.

It's amazing when people who don't even know you pray for your good heath and success. But being a private person, sometimes I don't know how to handle the adulation that comes my way.

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business.

My mum is the opposite of my dad. She's a very private person, very shy and totally against boxing. She never watched any of my fights live. She hated me doing it.

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.

I went to a failing school, and by the grace of God, my mother was able to put me into private school, and had she not, I would probably be in a gang or dead right now, because that was the road I was going down.

I never wrote. I also never really thought about being an actor. But when it was time to go to high school, we couldn't afford private school, so I tried out for all the special schools in New York.