Quotes About Struggle

My stories are about humanity, about the challenges of surviving and the constant fight against ignorance, inhumanity and complacency.

The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.

Simply surviving in this business is a feat.

Sometimes, you just feel like you're just surviving for parts of the season.

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving.

I'm surviving a life-threatening illness. Many do not, such as those without celebrity and fortune who have to depend on the public healthcare system.

Every single thing I do... is just me surviving.

I have survivor's remorse.

The band I was in, Soul Survivor, moved to Los Angeles in 1964 and tried real hard for two years.

With 'Survivor' - I didn't get any sleep, there was no food, we had to boil our water... plus, it was physically taxing during the day. That's what made it more difficult than three-a-day practices.

If I were on 'Survivor,' I might be the first off the island.

Honestly, surviving in 'Bigg Boss' was a cakewalk as compared to staying in 'Survivor,' where we had to live in primitive-age conditions, even generating fire on our own.

This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I'm a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.

Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.

Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.

'American Idol' is sometimes lumped with reality shows and it has that element - folks-next-door battling it out in a contest. But instead of fighting leeches, bugs, parasites and each other, as on CBS's 'Survivor' and other shows that imitate it, the 'American Idol' contestants, of course, sing.

I'm not playing 'Survivor' when someone I love has cancer.

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

I guess when you play 'Survivor,' almost everyone gets got.

We have named our kids Ryan and Krishank. Well, Ryan is also called as Sultan as he is a survivor and had a long struggle with life.

You know, I suffer kind of from survivor's guilt. It's like you suffer from success because you feel like - why me? Why am I so special? What makes me so different from the next man and why am I able to achieve these things that this person can't? Prayer is the only thing that helps me get through it.

I wanted to resist in 'The Look of Silence' making a film that ends with any kind of positive hope I feel in human rights documentaries dealing with human survivors.