Quotes About Struggle

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

If you have 100 acres worth of food, and you've got 500 animals out there, the young ones and the old ones are going to starve to death because they can't compete. When they starve, they start to eat things they shouldn't be eating and spread disease not only to them but to us.

Temping is the worst. I would rather starve and be homeless than nanny or temp again.

I know coal is dirty, but that's all we got. So as much as I'd love to have clean energy - solar panels everywhere - right now, all we have is coal. The people I love, and the people that I grew up with, that's their livelihood, and I don't want to see them starve.

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

When I moved from Boston to L.A., I floundered. I definitely did time at the Improv and the Comedy Store, making 20 bucks a night. I learned how to be a starving comic. I was an in-debt comic: I ate well on loan.

When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving.

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

I was planning on being a starving artist.

When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.

Whether you're starving in a garret or living in a castle like J. K. Rowling, I had this image of the author as a flawless, composed individual, serene in the knowledge they were creating art.

I tried a juice cleanse once, and by the third day, I wanted to kill everyone. I honestly don't even think it's healthy. It's not good for you to just drink juice. Like, if you detox for one or two days, fine, but a 10- or 14-day juice cleanse? You have headaches, and I was in the worst moods. I couldn't do it. Starving.

While I was never diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia at the time, I've learned that starving myself and bingeing means I had both.

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.

Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

Britain in 1939 and 1940 really thought they were going to lose the war. It looked like they were going to lose. There was bombing every day, and people were literally starving.

There's a brain chemistry - the floatiness and the disassociation and all the things that came with starving - I became addicted to.

When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it.

I was a starving artist.

I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.