Quotes About Struggle

Music was my first love, but it was difficult for me. It's something that I really love, but I didn't feel that I was so good at it. I can sing well, but I'm not a great singer. When I sing, I don't feel I'm expressing all the emotions.

No matter what you do in life, it's always a struggle, to first of all find who you are.

Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.

As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.

'Armor On' explains why I needed armor in the first place. Sonically, you'll hear this battle of, 'I love you, no I don't. I love you, I hate you.' That's what you'll feel. You see the story kind of fight against itself.

There's a misconception that, as you have success with a band for a long time, things get easier, and that's not necessarily true. It's harder to keep connecting with that fire that got you started in the first place when you're amongst all the politics in the business, and just having a little bit of that looming pressure.

Teams struggle when they come to Stamford Bridge and, if we score one or two, everything seems to open up for us. We need to work hard to get into that position in the first place, but you can see what happens once we are ahead.

Good shows have to get made in the first place... The regular ones don't excite me as an actor but at the end of the day, I have to work to earn my bread and butter.

I never wanted to be a fighter in the first place.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

I know first-hand how hard it is to start a business. Those first few years are rough.

I stand here as the mother of three children, who knows firsthand how difficult it can be to combine family and a career.

Starting a company is rough. It's even harder when you're young - I know this firsthand, because my first company flopped when I was 25.

I understand firsthand that Washington is broken.

I believe there's a job in the fish factory for me. That's enough to get me through every audition.

I spent 39 days in the Amazon, and I could not even find a fish to catch.

I was born in Grimsby and always lived around there, but it's died a death because of the loss of the fishing industry.

I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.

Where I fit in is confusing to me.

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

In the early 19th to the early 20th century, people had a lot of things wrong with them. Doctors didn't know how to fix them, and so they lived with them.

Guys like me, we have a different style that makes it hard to break in easily. When I was 18, 19, I felt like I was just a boy, body-wise and mentality-wise. I had to fix everything together.

With my bowling, I didn't know how I was doing it, so when it went wrong I didn't know how to fix it.