Quotes About Struggle

You know, you pick and choose your battles.

I haven't been an actor who's been able to pick and choose roles, and being a family man, it's been about putting food on the table.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

I got into a lot of fights, but it wasn't because of my name. Being from the neighborhood with a name like Chauncey, people think I got picked on. But a lot of strange names come out of the neighborhood.

I've picked up a few scars during games.

I wanted to be like some of the other young ladies that were in my school. I used to get picked on in church. Nobody wants to hang out with me. I want to hang out with the cool girls, and I started to take the wrong turn and do things I knew wasn't right.

I ended up living on Crete for eight months. I picked olives and did house painting and got broke.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don't all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on.

This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.

Back in Nebraska, I was known as the fat model - the girl who was pretty for a big girl. My body, like my confidence, has been picked apart, manipulated, and controlled by others who didn't necessarily understand it.

It was while I was in the mental hospital that I got my letter from the British Olympic Association saying, 'Congratulations. You've been picked to go to the Olympic Games.' I kept stressing I wasn't a patient.

I really hate when I do a great song with great lyrics but my voice just don't fit because of the type of beat I picked.

I was such a bizarre conundrum of everything that makes you worry about a child. I was a bad student. I got picked on a lot. I loved horror movies.

I don't like to be picked on. Growing up where I did you learn to fight.

I don't know what's wrong with me - I don't know why I only get picked to play strange characters!

Like many others who stand out, I was picked on.

There were definitely songs in the past that were me dealing with living this gender dysphoria, and sometimes they were really direct and no one picked up on it - but oftentimes, they were more veiled in metaphor.

I've been trying to prove myself since I picked up this brown ball at the age of 7.

A group of girls didn't like me and picked on me on a daily basis.

I didn't do very well at school - teachers picked on me, I'm sure of it - and I'd stay out all hours of the night with my mates.

Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.

I'm the son of a woman who grew up in Waycross, Georgia, picking cotton.