Quotes About Struggle

It is difficult to make movies on your own terms and also to make a film and convince somebody to have faith in it.

I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.

My father was convinced that America was the greatest place in the world. I'm afraid I didn't have the family I would have dreamed of.

I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.

In my early 20s, connecting with fiction was a difficult process. There seemed to be little rhyme or reason to what was meaningful, what convinced, and what made sense.

I was forced to say, 'I will not censor the Internet.' But I was never convinced.

At a school in Massachusetts where I once worked, we managed early on through consensus. Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.

I'm used to people not getting it. I'll make amazing music, but it's convincing people that it's amazing - that's the problem.

I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.

The one reason why I got into cooking was because I wasn't good at anything else - not that I was good at it, but it was considered honest work.

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

When life gave me tough situations, acting helped me cope with those situations.

I feel like I didn't really know how to cope with not playing well.

Maybe people just can't cope with how jovial I am.

You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

I really struggle with my anxiety, I have done since I was a child. When I look back into it, I don't know what happened to make me the way I am, but it's definitely affected my anxiety levels and I've spent most of my life looking for coping mechanisms.

When the cops are trying to arrest you, if you fight back, things go wrong.

I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

When we did 'Thirtysomething,' television was either about doctors, lawyers, or cops.

I'm black so I've been getting eyed by cops my whole life.

I'm forced away from what I would call my music. I can't do another thing like 'Maxinquaye.' But if people didn't go out and copy it, I might have done another three or four 'Maxinquayes.' Which is terrible.

There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn't have that religious core - that base to turn to - I would be truly lost.

For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is happening corrodes our core. It is not the Chicago we know and love.