Desperation Quotes

I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I was writing a story, and it took me years. And when I finished, a friend of mine had the idea that the story should be read as a monologue in a theater. Deborah Eisenberg
Me Writing Desperation Finished Took Mine Out Some Had Written Idea Know Wrote Read Years Friend Story Theater Really Should Monologue
Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal. Desmond Tutu
Desperation Problems Lies Emergencies Countries Particularly Within Island Isolated Material Forgotten Africa Little Regions Poor Poor Countries Across Sea Appeal Strategic
Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation. Donovan
Work Desperation Long Tremendous Bit Inspiration Songwriting Burst Then
I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure. Douglas Carter Beane
Love You Desperation Seen Every See Inspiration Equal Because Encore Just Much Show Measure Acts Nearly Second
Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation. Edie Falco
Desperation About Open Well Yeah
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation. Harlan Coben
Desperation Three Inspiration Writer Make Person Perspiration Things
I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else. James Stewart
Desperation Try Else Several Would Something Something Else Had Pictures Well Sort Got Go Very Westerns Move Just Realised Really
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. James Thurber
Desperation Men Nowadays Lead Noisy Lives
The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it. Jean Baudrillard
Today Desperation Political Challenge Situation Our Out Abject Only Facing True Up Political Situation Get Us Help
Confidence definitely did not get me here! More of, like, desperation. Jesmyn Ward
Me Confidence Desperation Definitely More Like Get Did Here
I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation. Jhumpa Lahiri
Desperation Language Wish Kind Write New Realize Derives
Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. Jim Carrey
You Learning Desperation Desperate Some Point Period Anything Interesting Ingredient Creating Necessary
I need a consistency of my moods if there is to be any consistency in my style. I can't attempt to write always in the hollow flux of desperation and incipient terror. Jim Carroll
Desperation Consistency Style Flux Moods Write Attempt Terror Always Any Hollow Need
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. Johan Huizinga
Beautiful Depression Age World Desperation Every About More Yearning Intense Confusing Deeper Present
Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision. John Money
Best People Desperation Living Drastic Mine Way Best Way Seems More Perhaps For The People Well Understand Than Procedure Them Your Standards Who
When you collect bad loans... you sure learn a lot about making good ones. You also learn a lot about the power of persuasion, persistence and desperation. John Stumpf
Good You Persistence Desperation Power Collect Bad Good Ones About Also Learn Sure Making Lot Persuasion Loans
'Betsy' is one of my favorites because it is the one to which I've imposed the least clear narrative. To me, it's so much more about the feeling - desperation - than any kind of story at all. There's very little imagery or character development; it's just about a deep and desperate search for something. Julia Holter
Character Me Desperation Desperate Feeling Character Development Kind Favorites About Something More Clear Development Because Narrative Least Imposed Very Than Any Just Story Which Little Much Deep Search Imagery
I'm finding out what part of punk culture or white indie culture I actually still want to hold onto - What are the values? What are the contributions that I actually like? - and it not coming from a place of desperation or wanting to be embraced or wanting approval, essentially. Kelela
Culture Desperation Punk Values White Approval Out Finding Embraced Indie Onto Part Like Still Coming Contributions Essentially Want Wanting Hold Place Actually
'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer. Konrad Lorenz
Myself You Desperation Brainy Goodness Enough Cries Says Out Broker Name Answer Brains Heaven Want Billionaire Need
I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other. Laura Dern
People Desperation Dark Light Longing Other Relationships Intimate About Struggling Like Children Stories Movies Each Things Raise
'Chasing Fire' is about fighting for something that's already over. It's the beginning of the end. It's desperation. It's grand. But it's hopeless. Lauv
Desperation Hopeless Chasing Fire Beginning Fighting About Something Over End Grand
So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked. Lee Child
Entertainment Book World Desperation Logical Job First Feelings Become Stay Inside Some Only Driven Wrote Another Felt Without Answer How Real Very Getting Worked Novelist Actually
'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation. Louis Theroux
People Desperation Lonely Bleak Leading Town Beautifully Sort Quiet Which Lives Portrait
It's not like Mexicans have an illegal immigration organ in their body and at 14 kicks off a hormone and shows them how to come to the United States illegally. It's a question of desperation for a vast majority of them. Luis Alberto Urrea
Desperation Immigration Organ Kicks States Vast Vast Majority Come Like Majority How Question Off Mexicans Them Body Illegal Illegal Immigration Shows United United States
There's so little representation of people who look like me behind the camera that it makes you want to say yes to any opportunity out of desperation. It puts you in a situation where you can't make your best work. Diversity for cheap. Lulu Wang
Work Best Me You People Desperation Opportunity Diversity Situation Say Out Best Work Cheap Puts Like Look Make Makes Camera Yes Any Representation Behind Where Want Little Your Who
I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world is that my desperation goes away, and I can be happy. Mark Duplass
Be Happy Creative Happy World Desperation Will Drive Unless Someone Feels Greatest Am Goes Anxious Depressed Who Away Desire
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