Quotes About Struggle

When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to kind of place you.

I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm finding now that it's becoming harder to read comics as a consumer, so I think I'll have to make the call there and stop reading them.

Many filmmakers have had that experience. They make a movie, then out of nowhere, they either pass censorship or fail.

I don't think people realize how many scripts you write that go nowhere.

'Cobra Clutch' was to let the world know we ain't going nowhere. We got the game in the cobra clutch.

When I got cut from the National Football League, I had nowhere to go. I moved in with my parents until I got on my feet again.

We got evicted from our house in Guildford. We were chucked out and had nowhere to go. We ended up in social housing. And it was very hard for my mum. My brothers were five and three.

I was growing up and maturing at a time where we were invisible, man. We were nowhere except negative. Any time you saw a Latin person in Hollywood or on TV, they were some sort of negative character.

When I left school - or, rather, when I was expelled from school for hitting a kid who had disrespected a teacher - I had nothing, with nowhere to go. Where I'm from, it really means that. Now my family are millionaires. I never dreamed this would be possible.

And the thing about healing is sometimes you feel like you're making daily progress, and then, from nowhere, your legs get taken out, and you feel like you start again.

The 1980s were tough for most of Britain, but nowhere more so than Tottenham.

I felt I had to choose between being pretty or smart or athletic, and stick to it because if you try to do more than one, you have nowhere to belong. Then music was a boy's world and a lot of times men assumed I didn't know what I was doing because I was young and female.

I'm going to fight every day to make sure the kids growing up in communities like the one I grew up in or rural communities have access to the American Dream because nowhere else - nowhere else on the planet is my story even possible.

Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.

If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.

My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.

The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.

I wrestled Jordan Burroughs two times - Jordan Burroughs had a hell of a time trying to take me down. I stopped his double leg numerous times. And he also, probably, fractured my sternum - from me trying to stop him.

I've always scribbled, and I still do it. I've written numerous scripts for films for which I think I'd be perfect as the complex, intelligent and, yes, modern heroine. Embarrassingly bad, all of them. I've had to come to terms with the fact that I'm not a writer.

I don't see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.

As strong as we are, we have our moments. My mama is an African woman who had four kids and was a nurse for 25 years, and she had her moments. I've seen her cry.

My mom was a nurse at Rikers Island and she cried to me about not going the wrong route.

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.

Communities in every corner of America struggle to fill nursing vacancies to provide care for everyone who needs it.