Quotes About Struggle

Nothing feels worse than knowing that people didn't see your movie. That they wanted to and the critics loved it but nobody knew where it was because it didn't do what it was supposed to do opening weekend. It used to be that independents were allowed to stay in the theaters, build word of mouth.

I definitely feel pressure to keep slim. I don't want to be the guy who lost weight and gained it all back. But it's hard. Sometimes I'll gorge and gain nine pounds in a weekend somehow, and I get bummed about it.

I just feel like this guy who's visiting the music business over the weekend. Every time I write a song, I feel like it's never going to happen again.

I've always been such a loser with my organisation skills. That has always been one of my sad stand-out points.

As hopeful as I am, there are some times in my life when I get to low points. Luckily, I still have music to get me through things.

One day I'd have 20 points, the next day two points. I was dribbling the ball off my leg. I couldn't understand why. The media started asking me, 'Is this because you are a new dad?' I didn't want to blame my son. There are plenty of people in much worse situations, and they make it work. I have to do that, too.

I learned about poise and dignity, and I learned about what it means to be an African-American in television and what that requires in terms of what kind of position you take for yourself and how you define your own reality in a world that is still finding its footing, to say the least.

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

Here's a news flash: I hate to lose! Just watch any televised poker broadcast and you can see that's the case.

My father was raised in an orphanage, and my mother was an immigrant from Poland whose first childhood memory was of hunger. Somehow, despite all of that, I am called a member of the 'elite.' If so, I damned well earned it.

I served the Poland that existed.

Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941.

When you come from Poland, you have nothing. Your mother and father are working. You have only a bed for sleep. You have a kitchen, and that's it. You must fight.

Those years when Poland was occupied by the Nazis was one of the darkest time in Poland's history.

My father emigrated from Poland and my mother from Romania. There was no affluence in my family.

I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.

My phone and email have been hacked, I've been arrested by the police and followed by the pro-China people or the photographers from the pro-China newspapers.

We have seen communities cry out in pain, generation after generation, because of racism and police brutality.

My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became a closet writer.

In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.

The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

My family was poor. My father was in the police force and was drawing a small salary. Because of that I could not study.

As a black millennial, I remember with horrid detail how Democratic policies ravaged my community and destroyed my family.

When I was younger, I remember families like mine who had to deal with the disastrous policies of the 1970s.