Quotes About Struggle

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

You don't fight injustice by asking to become part of the system that committed the injustice against you in the first place. That's like a freed slave striving to become a slave owner.

It's so jarring to go from Baghdad to Cambridge, to go from a place where people are fighting and striving and dying to a place where the biggest concern is what kind of cheese to put in your sandwich.

I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.

With all this rehab, for me just to walk was a huge effort. I had to re-learn how to walk again after the stroke. And all the rehab and all the effort shows the mental determination times 10 to keep serving.

My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death.

Words don't go from the brain to the lips in time. That's what a stroke does to you... and that hurts me.

Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly disabling bug, a stroke.

People know the broad strokes of what it's like to be Spider-Man, but I wanted to really get into the details.

I struggle with arrangements. I take forever doing them. It gets to a point where I've been playing around with things on loops for days. I always paint in broad strokes - very quickly, I'll feel out the larger structure - but it's putting the details in that I find the hardest part.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

When the nation can act freely, then China may be called strong. To make the nation free, we must each sacrifice his freedom.

The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.

I am not strong on perfection.

'Paruthiveeran' was a difficult film to work on. It was my first film but a very strong character.

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged.

I still go through times when I'm down. I don't feel like I'm that strong woman that people think I am today.

People make me out to be this super strong woman, but I have my tough days just like anyone else.

I would like to say that I'm a walking poster board for feminism and women's liberation, but there are things that I do in my life that deeply, deeply fall short of being a statement for being a strong woman. I am flawed as much as anyone else.

If there's a common denominator in all of the parts I've played, they are all strong women in tough situations.

I've played lots of strong women in film, in big Hollywood films, and I've sometimes had a hard time in coming to a consensus of what makes a woman strong.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.