Struggle Quotes
  
  
  
	
		
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		Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Paradine Frost
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Christina Applegate
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jennifer Ellison
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The literature of former days is like watching a fire from across the water; in present-day literature, the author himself is being scorched by the fire and he is bound to feel it deeply, and when he begins to feel it deeply, he is bound to take part in the social struggle.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lu Xun
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Fiona McIntosh
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bonnie Hunt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		In the past I'd always felt like 'the girl' in the show or the movie. On 'Friday Night Lights' there were a bunch of girls, and I was the woman. Initially there was a little struggle with my identity around that. But now there's a sense of ease.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Connie Britton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I agree with him that we are going to work together for having this strategic agreement between United States and Iraq, and also to continue our cooperation in our struggle against terrorism and for promotion of democracy in Iraq and in Middle East.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jalal Talabani
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I've had so much stress in the last year so it's really a struggle. I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Carnie Wilson
			
			
				Wilson Phillips
			
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm not supposed to date you, Jenny." "That's what you said before." He leaned forward, his elbows on his knees. "I didn't think this was going to be a problem. I mean, I'm pretty good at not letting someone become important to me. I have to be if I want to make it to L.A." "I understand." He laughed. "How nice of you to understand, since you're the one making it a struggle for me! It would be so easy to make you important.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elizabeth Chandler
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Oriana Fallaci
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Doris Kearns Goodwin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. We made ourselves slaves to money, and we all have to work and be a part of this thing when time is always ticking. And before we know it, a decade has gone by, and did I really get to do everything I wanted to do or say everything I wanted to say?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jason Mraz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marian Wright Edelman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		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.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Johnny Vegas
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on my mind. Throughout my struggle to secure national freedom for China, I have continuously dreamed of the day when she would assume the full stature of an independent, democratic nation.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chiang Kai-shek