Quotes About Struggle

There weren't many options that came my way after Tum Bin.' Yet, people started expecting too much from me after that film.

I always think of the 'Schizophrenia' album as being like the cover of the Scorpions' 'Blackout.' It's got this guy breaking out of the glass, but he's got a straightjacket on. I think it's a bit of 'Blackout' mixed with a little bit of 'A Clockwork Orange.'

I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.

When I came to New York, I told everyone I was a writer/director, and they said, 'No.' There was a rule. You could be one or the other. They ordained me writer. But then I won the Obie for directing 'Spunk,' and the rules changed.

All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

I think I was 16 when I had the thought of maybe being a writer. And this is complicated, something I only now understand, because when I was young, having dyslexia and not knowing it made reading such an ordeal.

In fact, I had never imagined that seven years after my ordeal, the #MeToo movement will start and that I will be talking about it all over again. This is nothing but karma. Dibakar has directed six films, even though I didn't get any films after I went public with my allegations.

My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.

I worked a lot of non-acting jobs for a really long time. They ranged from auto mechanic to landscaper to manual labor to working in a factory that made airplane parts. I even tried to go to school as a paramedic and ended up being an orderly in a hospital.

We still have so far to go as a country. People don't like to listen to women or take orders from them. I feel that a lot as a woman playing music.

Part of our history includes the long struggle to pass the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.

Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn't believe in black exceptionalism. There's nothing exceptional about 'You can have that, too' - except when it comes to justice. You can't have that.

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.

My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

I want to show that drama doesn't lie only in blood and destroyed buildings but in daily life, in ordinary human beings.

India's middle-class knows better than most how hard and lonely the struggle of an ordinary man can be.

I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition.

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.