Quotes About Struggle

I know exercise is important, but I hate it!

I like me food. I also don't like me exercising. It's something me don't do very well. But it's something I've got to get into.

Being a black person in America is exhausting.

Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.

I'm in the middle of an existential crisis in how I approach comedy about these big issues. I sometimes find, when I get drawn on the subject of race, it's too close to home for me and I can't articulate what I'm trying to get across.

At the end of 'Next to Normal,' you can see the light. 'There will be light.' That's the reason the show exists. Those are the last four words.

Competition exists everywhere.

I'm nothing but a drunkard. Why do people expect me to be anything else?

Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?

The expectation from other people kind of gets on me.

I think when you have to deal with everyone else's expectation and it's not in line with how you feel, that's difficult.

You can't write about a personal struggle if you're going to water it down to meet everyone's expectations about what's appropriate.

One of the expectations growing up was that I'd become a well-known artist.

Sometimes the weight of expectations, of doing anything, can be a little bit heavy.

I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.

It was harder, I think, to get attention for the films that I wanted to do than I expected it to be.

I have a learning disability when it comes to languages, I envy actors like Prakash Raj and my kids who do it with such ease.

In life you cannot expect things to fall into your lap, you have got to work hard.

Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.

You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year.

I looked after my children, I looked after my husband but there was no one to look after me. I am sure no other woman would have lasted in my situation for too long. But I held onto Mazhar.

There is always going to be a point where your form becomes patchy and it's down to how long it lasts really.

Latin AP was a struggle. There were a lot of people in class drawing pictures during that, but I took it seriously.

Miranda's this girl that everyone's just laughed at online for years. I want people to empathize with her.