I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called ‘Once Upon a Mattress,’ that kind of put me on the map.
I struggled with working with producers because no one openly wanted to give me a chance to rap on their beats. That’s just honest talk. No one really wanted to take that risk.
Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It’s a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It’s a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you’re damn right it’s a true story.
I struggled many times when maybe it didn’t look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day.
When I was young, they thought I was from outer space. I was the only gay person they probably knew, and they struggled with that. Everybody knew I was gay. They just didn’t want to talk about it.
So much of school, you have to write, but I just struggled. I couldn’t help it.
Argentina has never been able to convince itself that it can win in Brazil. For some reason we have always struggled.
For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
I’ve had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn’t been handed to me and it hasn’t been easy.
During the 10 years I worked as a prosecutor, I always struggled with what to do with someone who was clearly mentally ill and committed a horrific crime.
I’ve always been the one who struggled financially, so now it’s so cool that I can make my own money and do whatever I want with it.
I did suffer from sciatica, which was one of the most painful things I’ve ever experienced. Lots of women love being pregnant and say they feel really womanly, but I felt really ungraceful and struggled a bit with that!
I was born outraged. I was born without, knowing my people were not counted, not included, not centered. I struggled through low-resourced schools, communities, and housing projects.
I struggled with restricting and purging. It is not really anorexia or bulimia. It is more anorexia than bulimia, but it doesnt fit super neatly into a box, which I learned through my years of treatment that more and more eating disorders dont fit neatly into a box.
Especially for my first album, I struggled with even the thought of being a solo artist.
I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college – this was when I was younger.
In the past, when we toured countries like Australia or South Africa, we struggled, but we also got to learn a lot, and we learnt to cope with pressure.
I struggled with the limelight.
There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.
My mom struggled for a long time growing up poor, and then we were on welfare when I was a kid. So to see her kids, not just me, be successful and making money and happy and healthy and in good relationships – it means so much to her after all that she’s been through.
I’m such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
Ever since I’ve been blessed with success, I’ve struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I’ve had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, ‘Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?’ Then I feel like I can help.
The Democratic party is one that I’ve always observed. I have struggled greatly in life from the day I was born, and I am honored to be a part of something that focuses on working class citizens and molds them into a proud specimen.
I was diagnosed with dyslexia – I struggled a lot in school and didn’t enjoy it. I’m not great when it comes to sitting in a classroom – I’m much more about doing things. Boxing massively helped with that frustration and anger.
I don’t know what I would’ve done without it. I really struggled in school with reading and writing. Art was my refuge – my way of speaking, of dealing with my own issues and connecting with the world.
I struggled to learn basic skills, get a grip on markets, find my own unique voice, create story lines and come up to speed with the industry. I struggled for ten years before having any success.
I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I’m completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like trying to make my own curry. Really hardcore stuff.
School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn’t so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature – anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in.
I want to start by making a pledge, a pledge to those from the Windrush generation who have been in this country for decades and yet have struggled to navigate through the immigration system: This never should have been the case, and I will do whatever it takes to put it right.
I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
Virtual-reality researchers have long struggled to eliminate effects that distort the brain’s normal processing of visual information, and when these effects arise in equipment that augments or mediates the real world, they can be that much more disturbing.
My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills… So my parents always struggled.
I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‘This is what I asked for.’
I am somebody who has always struggled with uncertainty. And, of course, uncertainty is so core to life. I seek out knowledge to help me deal with that. But I’m also aware that knowledge can be really a double-edged sword.
Founders have continually struggled with and adapted the ‘big business’ tools, rules, and processes taught in business schools when startups failed to execute ‘the plan,’ never admitting to the entrepreneurs that no startup executes to its business plan.
As a teenager, I struggled a lot, had several major depressive episodes, and ended up dropping out of high school and getting a GED.
I feel like the word ‘influencer’ is something that I’ve – I don’t want to say struggled with, but I’ve kind of, like, expanded on that because I started as a musician. And my following came because of that, so it’s always been, like, musician first and, I guess, social-media influencer second.
I think that in the last four or five years I’ve constantly struggled with the balance in my life.
My family, for generations, has struggled through the effects of working blue-collar jobs long past the age of retirement.
I always struggled with the idea of forgiving my enemies.
I played football for a United XI against Newcastle recently, and then did a show with the Mondays the weekend after. Man, my legs! My groin! I really struggled through that gig. I’m not as young as I used to be.
The athletic part I never struggled with. It was the promos, the talking and, being uncomfortable in front of the crowd. Especially being a ‘bad guy,’ having people call me names, that was hard getting used to.
At a young age, I was very aware I was different and not perceived in a good way. For a lot of my adolescence, I struggled with that, trying to identify where I belong and who my real friends are.
We came to the U.S. with $40. My parents were both professionals in China who had difficulty finding employment here. They worked multiple jobs, but we still really struggled. There were times when we could not make rent and were dependent on the good graces of people that we met, and sometimes we depended on shelters.
I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn’t have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
In middle school and high school, I had straight A’s, and I graduated at the top of my year. On the flip side of that, I struggled with very severe performance anxiety.
I struggled with a lot of the legacy for a long time, probably actually into my 30s before I really made peace with it.
Initially I struggled to find gluten-free products, but things have gradually improved, and now retailers like Holland & Barrett – with their new Free From range – are starting to cater for celiacs.
The Richard Ashcroft of 1992 would have struggled to imagine the path my life has taken – he would be amazed at the changes in my song writing.
My dad’s white, my mom’s black, and I’ve struggled with being mixed race.
I started playing in goal because I ‘struggled to run as fast as the strikers and the other players out there. I was 10 years old.
I’ve struggled a lot for what I have today.
I’ve been in teams that have struggled and been relegated.
I am a very opinionated person and I have stuff that I believe in. But I’ve always struggled to find my niche amidst it all.
