Quotes About Struggle

I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.

Business is tough, and the fashion industry is particularly tough.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.

Lyrics are really, really hard, I think, or at least they're really hard for me. Some people can channel lyrics faster. I find them very hard to find, so because of it, they take me a long time, and I really think about them.

There were times I didn't know if I even belonged in the NBA. Everyone at this level is so good - bigger, stronger, faster.

I bottled up all my emotions and forced myself to grow up faster than I needed to.

I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

Getting chronic Lyme disease is probably the fastest way to figure out what and who is real in your life.

I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.

Mate, my fat COVID body. I won't be able to do one chin-up.

I'm fat! There's nothing else to call it.

I'm kind of fat.

I was fat, so I have the right to tell other fat people not only that they should lose weight, but also that they must lose weight because I was fat, and I lost weight, and I saw the difference.

In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

I admit that I'm fat.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

When you are defending your title at any point in your career, a loss can be fatal.

I knew what my fatal error was: After running perilously fast in lane five, I slowed down at 250 meters. I could not cover the lost ground after that - and that cost me the race. After the death of my parents, that is my worst memory. I kept crying for days.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

Fate has many faces.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Entering politics is a fate worse than death.