Quotes About Struggle

You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.

You have to go down before you can come out — that's how these things always work.

Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.

You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.

I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don't believe it's important, you won't put in the work you need to.

I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time because I was finishing my doctoral degree.

It is difficult to make political art work.

Lost is our freedom When we submit to women so: Why do we need 'em When, in their best, they work our woe?

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

Everybody has down times and stuff that they have to work through. I worked through that stuff because I've always wanted to be playing soccer.

I think she [Michelle Obama] is reluctant to date someone she's above at work. It's 1989, she's at a law firm, surrounded by mostly white men, and she has to prove herself every day.

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmaker,' 'I'm going to show my work at MoMA.' When you start to think those things, you're in trouble.

I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.

It wasn't good for my nerves, that kind of work - a fireman. I've got high blood pressure. I get upset easily. I don't think that was a proper career alternative for me.

It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake.

When I see friends of mine break up and they're like, "Oh, we still really love each other, but we just couldn't make it work," I don't get that. I don't understand what that means. Make it work.

It is hard to produce work in New York. You kind of have to center yourself - do some Zen meditation exercises and just focus. It is very distracting, and money, of course, is an issue.

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn't work 'cause I wasn't a superhero artist, and I left it unfinished.

I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.

I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.