Quotes About Struggle

My husband saw me go through the 2008 campaign cycle. We did it together for Sarah Palin and John McCain. It ended disastrously, and afterward I really wanted to do something different, so I started writing novels, and I imagined a fictional female president in my head.

In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.

I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.

I haven't written a brochure yet. It's killing me. I know I have a brochure or pamphlet in me yet.

I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.

Unfortunately, even during a pandemic we've seen a process in Washington that makes no sense for the needs of Mainers.

It shouldn't take a pandemic for us to take notice that millions of people can't afford a single sick day.

The COVID-19 pandemic has cut short the lives of over 67,000 Americans. It has sickened over 1 million Americans, and it has impacted every one of us.

I grew up really into comic books, and I actually thought I was going to be a comic-book artist. That was my ambition before I realized I couldn't keep characters looking the same from panel to panel.

Female standups are like hustlers. We have to be. We fight to get gigs or on to panel shows. We're made to earn it in a very different way to men.

I became bitter, hard, cold. I was always on a panic - couldn't buy clothes or a good place to live.

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

There were times when I didn't have enough money, I didn't have enough work, and I would panic.

I'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death.

When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

In 'Next to Normal,' I had millions of breakdowns and panic attacks, but nobody ever heard about those.

In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.

Feeling alone makes negative feelings worse. When you feel alone, frustration quickly can become anger, fear quickly can become panic.

I had little breakdowns and depression that would last for three days. I also started suffering from panic attacks. I used to get them when I was really young, but they came back. I'd be out having a drink, and then I wouldn't be able to breathe, would freak out, and I'd feel like my heart was going to stop.

A lot of my musician friends have the same kind of anxiety and panic when faced with crowds of people, and I do, too.

I used to have panic and anxiety attacks.

Once you've had a panic attack you live in fear that another one is going to come. From the second it's gone, every moment every day is about the next one.