Quotes About Struggle

It's hard to balance work and family.

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

I work too hard, I'd be a really bad mom, unfortunately. I can't even keep a plant!

Being a scrub was undesirable and hard work, living in crowded conditions with no privacy and just being one of many. Undistinguishable.

For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

Look at Picasso. O'Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.

As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.

Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.

There's definitely a magical quality to writing that can't be explained. I can write something I love in two days, or I can work on a story every day for months and it never comes together.

My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

Less so here, I've noticed. I can see why there's a misconception that it's easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn't work out at all. In fact, it's the reverse.

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

I'm not a 'sexy' 'beautiful' woman. It takes a lot of work to make me look like a girl.

My head's filled up with all the reasons it won't work. And I keep running the figures, over and over, but I can't seem to come up with an answer.

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.

I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.