Quotes About Struggle

When I did 'Gangs,' I didn't have a manager, a PR or stylist.

Definitely it is difficult to maintain the Hollywood stylized action that we had in 'Kick.'

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.

I followed my gut and my subconscious told me the kind of music I wanted to create. But it wasn't easy.

Maths? Aiyyo. You know what? I always had a love and hate relationship with the subject.

As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.

Math - it's not my best subject.

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.

There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger' not only applies to the deeply personal subject matter of 'To the Bone' but to simply getting a film about people with eating disorders made. Without the brilliant Julie Lynn, Bonnie Curtis, and Karina Miller producing, there's no way this project would be coming to fruition.

It's very hard to deal with true subject matter, especially when you're writing about such weighty issues.

As for my studies in school, I was a solid student. I was strong in English and Latin, but I got lost anytime the subject included math. I wish I had paid more attention to biology and science in general, subjects that came to interest me as an adult. I could have gotten better marks, but I never took a book home, never did homework.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

By the time you get to your sixth record, some of the benefits of being in a band are grander than ever, but some of the obstacles are just massive. You deal with these lateral subjects, and all that is left is the elephant in the room.

'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.

All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.

I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections of the ways human beings attempt, however clumsily, badly, or well, to connect with others.