Quotes About Struggle

The thing is, I wasn't surrounded by lots of people who were helping me build a career.

When I first got to L.A., I was shocked at how business was done, and how people... it's like everything I was told not to fall for, I was surrounded by. And it was very difficult for me, because I just didn't like the industry at all.

My parents came from Calcutta. They arrived in Cambridge, much like the parents in my novel. And I found myself sort of caught between the world of my parents and the world they had left behind and still clung to, and also the world that surrounded me at school and everywhere else, as soon as I set foot out the door.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to repress it. I couldn't take that kind of power and success.

My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.

Things can be tough even when surrounded by nice Pottery Barn stuff.

Sometimes I feel surrounded by this dark cloud, and it feels like I can't breathe. It's nervousness and I don't know what else.

Being young is so hard. You're surrounded by judgment and fear.

I always performed out of fear of failure - and that's a tough way to play. It was as if my back was to the wall and I was constantly surrounded by very dangerous people that were not friendly to me.

I worked hard all these years with my career to finally be on 'Love & Hip Hop' and I never got a chance to show the audience a side of me that isn't always surrounded with drama.

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

I had tumors on both ovaries, and the cancer had spread into my lymph nodes and surrounding tissues.

The language surrounding cancer is not language I'm particularly comfortable with.

I suppose I have been contending with issues surrounding my safety and security for years.

Some people don't have the right surroundings to help get them through an experimental time or a tough time.

When a successful man goes to pieces, his frustration engulfs the entire surroundings.

For me, when I grew up, I never really had an outlet when it came to my social surroundings. Even if I had a form of popularity, I felt like I was very limited.

'Greatest American Hero,' I really dug that as a kid because it had an alienation to it, where he was given a gift and didn't know why, and yet he was forced to do something with it, and he was very much an out-of-place character who was trying to cope with his own surroundings, and I can kind of relate to that guy.

Being away from my family for six months a year - even if it was in the beautiful surroundings of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean - was just too hard.

I think that what I don't like is everything that surrounds a footballer. The fame, the people idolizing you, the press, not being able to have a normal life like normal person. I think that is what has held me back a little in football.

There is a lot of envy, there is a lot of flak that we as children of the industry get for what we may have achieved or not achieved. We're under constant surveillance.

For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.