Quotes About Struggle

There's always going to be pressure, and there's always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.

It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

I really just want to be a writer and a storyteller. But maybe pain is one of the things you have to feel in order to be creative.

I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.

The more a character wants and the less a character has the ability to get what they want, the more you have an endless fuel for storytelling in comedy.

We have always put the quest for balance at the center of our storytelling, whether it is the struggle to find it within one character, between a character and society, between disparate cultures or between humans and their environment.

I never like to do storytelling where everything is just copacetic right after that episode.

From a storytelling perspective, perfection is death.

'Fahrenheit' was a very difficult product to sell to publishers initially because no-one believed in storytelling or emotion.

Sometimes those apartments we lived in weren't finished, sometimes the rooms would be heated by the gas stove, sometimes we would heat our water on hot plates to take baths, and that was very sobering, especially as a child.

My mom, her money going was straight to the bills.

At my first Olympics, I didn't have a contract, and I wasn't making any money. After my first Olympics, I was working at 24 Hour Fitness at the front desk. I would go to practice in the morning, run home, shower, grab some food and then go straight to work. I didn't get off of work until 10 or 11 o'clock at night.

Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt.

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

I am not perfect, but my faith keeps me as close to the straight and narrow as possible.

I've given up on trying to explain myself, or trying to set the record straight, or trying to get people to understand what I'm really like as a man, outside of my acting, outside of my job.

Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.

No one knew I was gay growing up but I was bullied. I was a cheerleader, fairly popular and considered straight.

I wasn't the guy who got straight As. I got As and Bs and a couple Cs.