Quotes About Struggle

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

Working from home is so, so hard because I want to be present for them and yet there's so much to do work-wise. That's the biggest challenge for me.

Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.

Surfing is so much work. It's one of those things that I just love, but it's so hard.

Having been a chef for some many years, I understand what it's like to work really, really hard to get good at something, only to have someone piss all over it.

Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage.

Drugs didn't work out too well for me.

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

I'm very honest about the things I struggle with and I need to work on to survive as a solo artist.

Democracy is hard work.

In 2010 there were a lot of folks who were still out of work. There were a lot of folks who had lost their homes or saw their home values plummet, their 401k's plummet.

I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.

You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.

I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.

One way or another we all work for our vice.

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.