Quotes About Struggle

It's a lot of work to read a crummy script.

I work my back 'til it's racked with pain, the boss can't even recall my name.

I grew up kind of rough, without very much. So, I just want to work as hard as I can so my kids won't have to go through what I did.

When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.

I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.

I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.

I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

I'm a woman trying to balance family, work and friends like so many others out there.

One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.

Men, when they're out of work, tend to become abusive.

[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.

Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.

Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance.

I think the biggest obstacle I still have to overcome is myself, and just kind of struggling every day with what to do with the work and where to go next.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.