Susan McBride Quotes

I was written off as a lost cause. But I'm living proof that miracles can happen.

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

Thankfully, gratefully, cancer did not get the best of me.

I think my demise has been prematurely reported. That's what I think. I think I'm going take this and make medical history, and I really believe that.

I am lucky to be a film director. I can create, express. It proves that I am still alive and the Khmer Rouge did not succeed in destroying me.

When I had an accident in 2006, no one believed that I will return to the ground, but I did.

My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she was in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her.

I have a child to feed and a spirit that can't be crushed, so I'm able to move ahead.

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.

I had a strong faith that I would, eventually, have a baby.

I'd like to think I've overcome. I was not a person that was supposed to survive New York City, that was ever going to write my own songs or have children.

That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the end, there are things about this novel and about these characters' experiences that make their stories universal stories.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

I've survived. I've beaten my own bad system, and on some days, on most days, that feels like a miracle.

I am living against all predictions. The doctors say I am a sort of witch.

Every step of the way, life was hard. I was supposed to be a statistic.

The best of me now lives on in my two little women, baby girls I was lucky enough to be able to make with my own body.

I come from a very small place in Eastern Europe, so my whole life has kind of been one big fight to live my dream against all odds. But I think it's hard to be a human in general - we all have our own struggles and things to overcome. That's why it's so important to always have compassion.

Man. I've been through a lot as a kid. But at the same time that upbringing just made me stronger and made me more determined to make it out of where I made it out from and just fight extra hard to not go back.

I come from amazing DNA, I watched my mom fight and win against breast cancer.

After a tumultuous 20-year marriage, my father up and left one day, leaving my mother to raise three boys without the means to do so. And yet somehow she did. At the age of 50, she enrolled in nursing school and became a nurse and worked countless overtime hours and weekend shifts just to give us a fighting chance.

My only success is that I am alive.

I was born in a small village in Kerala. From there, I went on to play for the Kerala state team and international test cricket for India, and now I am working in TV shows and cinema... Any miracle can happen.