Quotes About Struggle

I'm the outcast of the hip-hop game.

Each match has a predetermined outcome. But it doesn't always turn out that way. A lot of tempers get very heated in the ring.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

I basically never believed that I was a commercial actor. Just because of the outcome of many auditions over time. No one hired me.

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

I'm not very good at talking and being with people and being gregarious and outgoing. I love people, but I have great difficulty doing it.

There are some guys that can roll out of bed and they can throw 96 from the very first outing. I've just never been one of those guys.

I just kept trying to tell myself, Don't be a hero and make a 3. If you keep making 4s, I think I'll eventually outlast somebody.

When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.

The hardest part of writing is the first draft, and the closer you get to your deadline, the messier your workspace becomes - but that's the same with any creative outlet.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

If I hadn't had the outlet of writing and drawing comics, I guess there's a good chance I wouldn't be around today.

The reason why I play 'Madden' is because in 'Madden,' I can control everything, and in the game of life and the game of football, you can't. It's kind of like an outlet.

I had a hard time with bullying in school, so being creative was my outlet.

Rap was an outlet for me to express myself. Nobody was trying to hear no R&B/Funk band from East Houston, so I guess I would rap.

Things like 'following your passion' and 'finding your creative outlets' didn't mean anything to me because I didn't have that area of my brain.

Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.

My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled from about 20 schools.

Everyone knows I've got a pretty passionate outlook on my cricket - and sometimes it does get the better of me.

That's the bulk of my lyrical output - being confused and trying to find answers to my confusion.

At the age of 19, I removed myself from society for almost four months, setting off years of manic episodes, including outrageous overspending. I bought several Mercedes because I thought I could. I had no money, but I rented a jet.

I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments.