Quotes About Struggle

It seems like racism in the United States is overflowing.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.

I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.

I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was.

I've been shortchanged and overlooked my whole life. And if you boo-hoo about everything, that's all you're going to do your whole life.

It's really maddening out there for dark-skinned actresses in terms of the opportunities we get. There's just so much talent that is being overlooked.

I think the Caribbean has been overlooked because guys don't really have the resources to get out and guys are less fortunate to make it to the U.S. and get scholarships and for people to come down and see them.

Nothing was ever easy in Memphis and I think that's why the fans were drawn to our team so much. It's because the way we played and the way we got overlooked and the respect that we didn't get most of the time was very similar to how the city felt and how the locals felt about life in general. It was an easy bond.

I didn't feel like I had as many fans as the other girls. It was a strange feeling. I never thought that it was because I was the darkest member of the band. I felt overlooked. So I did everything to make myself more noticed, convinced I wasn't good enough.

Writing has never been an intentional endeavor to me. I know a lot of people have experiences and then sit down and try to sort them out through song, but whenever I sit down to write, it comes out hackneyed or overly saccharine.

As a parent, my fantasy is to cook every meal, read every story, do everything, and also work all day. I'm overly hard on myself.

I think being an immigrant makes me overly optimistic.

Nothing happened overnight. Every country we went into, we started at the bottom. We knew that because the music we were playing and the attitude we had, we knew we'd be at the bottom and have to work our way up.

Look at my success. I didn't achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years' struggle, and every year, my times have shown gradual improvement.

In 1983, the government imposed a ban on the import of gensets. I was out of business overnight. I was in trouble.

People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.

I went from absolutely nothing to a lot of people judging me overnight, and it was really tough for me.

We knew when we started we wouldn't be accepted overnight, that it was going to be a long haul.

You can't wish away poverty overnight.

Just because my song was being played on the radio didn't mean I had a load of money. You don't get royalties overnight.

I think people think how I got work came easy. People assume that I was an overnight sensation, because they're just now hearing about me, or that everything happened very quickly.

I want people to know that I am not an overnight success, if only to encourage the people who don't feel that they are being successful.

It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.