personal hardship Quotes

When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me. But it was definitely a struggle to get through life and get through school.

You have never suffered-how can you be a leftist?

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses.

It's tough being a Jew.

When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of horror stories about what you feel like on the inside.

When I was growing up, nobody was really supporting me, especially in L.A.

For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really.

I felt differently about her [Gypsy Rose Lee] during every phase of the research and writing process. Often, I felt incredibly sorry for her; she had an extremely difficult childhood and a complicated 'to say the least' relationship with her family, her mother especially.

What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political system, and all I saw when was small after my grandmother died was my father in constant - constant combat with the system in India, and then I saw him die, actually.

I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend.

When my daughter was ill in Great Ormond Street, it was the darkest period of my life.

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn't be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.

Leaving Labour was one of the most difficult things I've ever had to do and it was not a cause of jubilation or happiness. I did it with great sadness, but you have to put the country first.

He is also a victim of some injustice; he usually tries to be alone, in order to show his pain to others.

Life at home wasn't very good and I had really left by the time I was 16 and didn't go back until after Cambridge when I went to look after my mother when she was dying.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

I had hoped to do a lot more to help promote science in this country and in Europe, but I cannot see how that can happen. I have become toxic. I have been hung to dry by academic institutes who have not even bothered to ask me for my side of affairs.

I just had different circumstances than most players, and I think that has been an advantage - maybe I carry a little chip on my shoulder with just how tough it was for my parents to overcome some of those financial situations.

I hated writing 'Love Warrior.' It's the hardest thing I've every written. I cried.

I ... think public service and private misery inseparably linked together.

Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?