Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.
‘Desperate Housewives’ – there’s no man on the planet that takes that personally, but if it were ‘Desperate Househusbands,’ they would shut ABC down.
The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.
You’ve seen it in the news – the radical left in our country, stinging from their 2016 election losses, has become increasingly desperate and unhinged. They want nothing more than to push their snowflake agenda on the entire nation, and our conservative Georgia values are under attack like never before.
People only attempt perilous journeys like crossing the Channel because they are desperate. It is deeply concerning that men, women, and children feel they have no choice but to put their lives at risk in their search for a safe place to live.
I think it’s still hard for me to turn down work if it’s really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn’t and so it’s kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.
Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don’t get released, is the fact.
I read that book ‘Fat is a Feminist Issue’, got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.
I’ve had a wonderful time in ‘Foyle’s War’ and I don’t mind being typecast. But I’m not prim. I’m chaotic, happy, and desperate to have some laughs. I’d love to do a comedy next, or something modern.
Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I’ve never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They’re the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can’t move up, and they’re desperate not to move down.
I don’t need a trailer; I don’t need to have the luxuries of what is Hollywood, which is why I’m probably not so desperate to get there.
I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn’t like the expectation to be pretty all the time.
I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.
The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
I’ve been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn’t just a desperate quest for positions or money. It’s just love – lots of love.
I completely hold on to the idea that people are eager if not desperate to be told a good story.
An Obama administration desperate to strike a deal is likely to strike a bad one.
I always thought just because I love football, it doesn’t necessarily mean I’m desperate to manage.
You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they’re very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they’ve got – so often, they have no idea.
The interesting thing is why we’re so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
Every human – especially the most vulnerable, the unborn, the infirm, those ravaged by age and those desperate in despair – should be protected in law, loved, and told repeatedly of their incredible beauty and worth.
I hate this quality, but I can go to dark levels when we lose. It’s not a panic attack, but there’s anxiety. I’m inconsolable. I’m a train wreck. I’m being myself. Then I get this crazy, intense focus, where I get desperate not to be embarrassed again. That dark spot is what I tap into. Creativity comes from there.
At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will not be forgotten by those who benefit from our trying to make a difference. Yet to try to insure we will not be forgotten too often results in desperate manipulative strategies that are doomed to fail.
It’s not like I think: ‘By the age of 40 I’ve got to be an international household name.’ When the opportunity to perform comes up, then I’ll take it. It’s really good fun. But because I don’t crave the attention or the buzz, it’s not like I’m desperate for it.
Americans have perfected the art of reducing complicated truths into formulas and products. We’re desperate for instant, visible, measurable ways of knowing God, instead of trusting that it’s complicated and a mystery.
I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said ‘Nic, it is what it is, it’s not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.’
I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.
I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that.
If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it’d be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you’re going to have to imagine that there’s something behind the curtain.
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
Frontrunners always attract envy, and a desperate campaign to stop them in their tracks.
People have become desperate to reduce everything, including each other, to mindless categories of good and bad, as if the world can be divided into Facebook likes and dislikes.
‘Desperate Housewives’ was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.
Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial – it’s been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.
Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you’ve made is worth the misery of having to review it.
There’s a good reason why you’ve probably never heard of President Trump’s success in promoting animal welfare – the media are desperate to move on from any story that humanizes this president.
I learnt not to be desperate in bad times and am learning not to be bullish when times are good.
North Korea’s whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They’re so poor and they’re so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it’s a game they’ve been playing for many, many years.
When you’re desperate, it’s good on defense because your hair should be on fire, but it’s bad on offense.
Among the difficulties I encountered, economic problems were the worst. I found that financial hardships could limit one’s ability to realize one’s dream, no matter how desperate and earnest you are.
People who feel under-appreciated sometimes make desperate moves.
I’ve realized I’ve become a bit reactive to each film I do. After ‘The Road,’ I was desperate to do something that had color and warmth to it and a stronger sense of community.
There’s a stage where you’re desperate to get a job, and you’re waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, ‘Please, please, please! I’m over here – give me a job!’
I’m desperate to enjoy my football again and play until I retire. Obviously I’m 34 so I don’t want to be sitting on the bench, I don’t want to be remembering my last few years of my career like that.
I was desperate for comedy to seep into me somehow, convinced that being surrounded by it would give me the confidence to go onstage myself.
One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.
It doesn’t matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn’t matter if you’re scared to death when the lights go on.
I’m not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I’m very hungry, but I’m just not desperate for it.
I was never desperate to work in Bollywood though I aspired to do a movie across the border but only if I was offered a strong character and a main lead.
People are desperate for these breathier, longer, more in-depth conversations. And the only thing I can’t provide in my show is the longer time.
Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.
When people around me were signing films, I would wonder why nothing good came my way. See, I wasn’t desperate to do films, but I was desperate to do good films.
