Quotes About Struggle

Being a mom, I can't imagine my child not having a meal. That's hard to digest.

In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?

Sometimes, when people step out of their shell, it's a lot for people to digest.

I don't court controversies, but when I state facts, which are hard to digest for male-dominated authorities, they call them squabble.

As a musician you're always your own worst critic and you're always digging into your songs and evaluating your own self-worth of things.

We fight people daily for respect, for our rights and for our dignity.

I learnt a hard fact: that dignity is a luxury in our country.

I may not be able to keep fighting for money for a living, but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.

It's very tough for a ballplayer to get proud and keep his dignity.

For me, the dilemma is I love Bristol, but you can only do that for so long and not get it back. It's been something that's been hard for me to accept. It breaks my heart.

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.

Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did whatever I could. Mainly television. Some Broadway. A lot of dinner theater work, which is not a very satisfactory medium.

I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.

Growing up, I didn't have great family dinners. We sat down every night, and my mother cooked food, but it was always about who was going to leave the table crying first.

I love Dior and Commes des Garcons, but I can't really afford them.

I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have.

Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

I was in dire need of a band that was serious about getting out of El Paso.

I remember how difficult it was to resist the food served on the sets of a movie directed by Abbas and Mustan. They love food, and I could not resist digging into their dabba for some wonderful meals.

I directed my first movie, not one piece of press!

I spent a long time on my first movie, which was the sequel to a short film that I did called 'Carne.' And I had no money. I shot it over a period of three years, a bit like David Lynch directed 'Eraserhead.'