Quotes About Struggle

The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.

My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.

People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some money and pay the rent.

What is a screenplay? 120 pages of begging for money and attention.

A boxer makes a comeback for two reasons: either he's broke or he needs the money.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

When I talk about money. All you see is the struggle. When I tell ya, I'm livin' large, you tell me, its trouble.

We're just a bunch of angry kinds with no money.

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

It's one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen?

I never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them.

As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money.