Quotes About Struggle

It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.

We're picking on people we can beat.

I'm bad at picking heroes.

I was never very good at picking cotton, and then I only made fifty cents or $1 a day. People would work for $1 a day during the Depression. So we would get $2 for playing music and just having fun. I think that as a result of that it was not just the money, but we enjoyed doing it.

I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.

I've led a career of having to take work to see my family, over picking and choosing, instead of 'I need food on the table and I don't know how I'm going to pay the mortgage.'

I batted with contact lenses in the IPL while playing for Delhi Daredevils. I wasn't picking the ball early. So I went back to the glasses.

I was never, like, picking on people or anything like that. I was more the other way around. I was a little insecure, I was broke.

It's been frustrating. Since I've broken into the top five, I've seen the politics of fighters dodging fights, cherry picking fights and this that and the other.

I know what it's like to have a No. 1 pick and having everybody picking at him all of the time.

Ask any guitar player - it's hard to feed yourself when you're picking for a living.

At certain times, you start to - maybe not lose the faith - but just wonder how long it will take until someone picks me up. I was thinking, 'Is it just me? Do I think I'm better than any manager does?'

You look at my career, everywhere I went - Miami, Green Bay, Cleveland, Philly - they were always bringing in draft picks and former first-rounders and guys with free-agent deals to take my job.

I went undrafted, played summer league with the Heat. I got to training camp three weeks straight and I didn't make a shot, whether live or pickup, coach in the gym or not.

The mainstream audience has a certain picture of what climbing is all about: man conquering mountain. But you can't conquer a mountain, though it may conquer you.

I really wanted to escape from that little girl. But it seems to me that the picture didn't let me go.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.

I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.

I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, 'It's just not in me to write a novel. It's not something I'm able to do.' It seemed like everything I wrote naturally ended at the bottom of page three. A picture book, three pages; an essay, three pages.

I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture books, my first thought was to do something about the dark.

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.

Where I came from, the idea of going into show business was just ridiculous; in fact I didn't tell anybody because I knew people would laugh at me. So I sort of snuck around and got some pictures and got a resume together and, of course, lied and said I did all kinds of things I didn't do.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.