Quotes About Struggle

We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England.

At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.

You pay your dues and work your way up through the system, whatever system there is - something guys in the business today don't really understand, don't have a clue.

Some people see me as someone who makes other people look bad... I often get a feeling most people don't know who I am, or have a clue, and I live with that. I don't try to prove anything by talking.

I'm forever making it out like I have got it all together and I know what I'm doing. The truth is I haven't got a clue what I'm doing.

History seems to be so clumsy.

I was living in my coach's basement.

I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.

It's hard, or you wouldn't like it. A lot of coaches really don't like what they're doing.

I spent a lot of my career fighting coaches. When coaches told me don't shoot, I'd shoot anyway.

It's hard to get opportunities anywhere. There are a lot of coaches out there and a lot of talented coaches too. It's not easy. Quite often there's no perfect situation that emerges.

Even the biggest coal boosters have long admitted that coal is a dying industry - the fight has always been over how fast and how hard the industry will fall.

I know the pain of coalition government.

It may seem like I've gone from one show to the next, but it's been a roller coaster. I've had my share of lows.

Anytime we lose a game, there it goes. The roller coaster's going down.

People struggle with moments of deep dread about life and moments of surety. Often within the course of the same day. Life is a roller coaster, especially if you take risks.

It might come off as cocky, but I've been through a lot in my life.

I didn't grow up making coffee. I'm not good at it.

It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.

I come from a blue collar background.

And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it.

I didn't go looking to Colombia for a dream - if I tell you that, I'm lying. I went to Colombia because I needed the work!