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Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation. Mary Gauthier

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The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation. Matthew Desmond

Desperation State High Cost Crushing Housing Families Sending Them Poor

Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts. Matthew Desmond

People Desperation Guts Well Vulnerability Reveals Ingenuity

I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive a death sentence. They do have options, even if the person who gave them their diagnosis isn't aware of all of them. The path they choose doesn't have to be one of desperation. Melody Beattie

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This urbanization that's taking place around the world is very real. But if it's people that are seeking an urbanized environment out of desperation, that's not going to be helpful long term. Mick Cornett

People World Desperation Long Out Seeking Environment Taking Long-Term Term Around Real Very Going Place Helpful

I would still ask the government not to drive the people of India to desperation, or else there is no other course left open to the people except to inaugurate the policy of non-cooperation, though not necessarily the programme of Mr. Gandhi. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Government People Desperation Drive Other Else Though Would India Except Open Policy Course Still Left Ask Gandhi Necessarily Programme

I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie. Nate Parker

It's such a dangerous thing for desperation to drive litigation. Neal Katyal

Desperation Dangerous Drive Dangerous Thing Litigation Thing

I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was relaxed and casual about her well-being during this tender time - and the novel clearly has its center in that panicked parental desperation that accompanies a first child and in the admittedly comedic extremes to which it drives us. Nick Harkaway

Time Desperation Wife First Needless Panicked Extremes Relaxed Say Admittedly About Parental Tender Casual Drives Clearly First Child Comedic Wrote Well-Being Accompanies Child Center Which While Pregnant Us Novel Her Draft

One shouldn't say yes in desperation to the first publisher who approaches. New authors especially should wait and weigh their deal and agree only when they are sure that they have landed themselves a good offer. Ravi Subramanian

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty. Ray LaMontagne

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I can say that when you model,when you get to a certain age, that's it for you. I remember there was a time where I was like, 'What am I going to do with my life?' I am a high school dropout who's only modeled. So there was desperation with that. Rene Russo

Journalism doesn't have to be your first love... or your only love. You can come to it in desperation, because you can't think of anything better to do with your life, that it's this or the abyss. But once you get going... it helps if you love it. Robert Krulwich

I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by 'recovery' from childbirth. Romola Garai

Love Women Desperation Fear Sadness Free Live Think Would Recovery Concerned Because Real Effect Expected Childbirth

I started writing lyrics out of desperation. I was broke and wondering where my next job, my next meal was coming from, although I had had several successful revue songs on Broadway. Sheldon Harnick

Writing Desperation Job Meal Lyrics Several Broadway Broke Out Had Songs Although Coming Wondering Where Successful Next Started

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German. Stefan Zweig

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates. Tad Williams

Desperation Resonates Plight Partial Perhaps Because Always Werewolves Been

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation. Thomas Merton

Desperation Fire Rich Cosmic Over Wheels Victories Honest

There's nothing like desperation to sharpen your sense of focus. Thomas Newman

Desperation Focus Sense Nothing Sharpen Like Your

'Superman' was a total accident. The producers of the animated series were having a hard time finding someone to read the character. I was brought in through a connection and, I think, out of desperation. Tim Daly

Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation. Tomas Borge

I've always wanted my music to have that desperation, where you just want to strip your clothes off and run down the highway. I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything. Tove Lo

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