Quotes About Struggle

I was a drummer living in Los Angeles in 1990. I had finished music school and was playing with a band. It wasn't going as well as it should have been.

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

While writing, I'm always so happy in the middle of a book or finishing a book and really hate starting them, so I often think, 'I wish I had a really big book to write to which I could devote seven years of my life.'

Finishing in the top four for Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Man United was easier before, but now it's getting much more difficult with the emergence of teams like Manchester City.

Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward.

What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

I've never felt like my career has been on fire.

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made.

Getting fired is hard.

I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

Most actors have been fired during their career.

I got fired from being a lunch-shift bartender because I had a reading of a play.

I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.

Early on, I had five jobs in a row where I was either fired or canceled.

Some coaches get fired even after the best years they've ever had.

By no means did my first book sell. I took a few runs at it. You'll never see those early efforts 'cause they're burned, straight to the fireplace where they belong.

I've been in a lot of fires.

I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.

I believe I am standing firm as a black woman in this industry in a time that it is hard as an artist period.

In terms of the way things went for me, I'm a firm believer that experience is what makes you. But I'm not saying it was easy.

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

When I had my first child, I didn't write for a year, and I felt when I tried to start again I might actually not be able to do it anymore. I really could not do it well, and I felt out of sorts with it.

I left school at the age of 16 with no education or income; taking the first job I could get working in a hair salon.