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Desperation Quotes

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

Focus Nothing Desperation Sense Your

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.

Pictures Go Try Desperation Well

Desperation sometimes drives innovation.

Dara Khosrowshahi

Innovation Sometimes Desperation

Confidence definitely did not get me here! More of, like, desperation.

Confidence Me More Desperation Here

When I became a songwriter, it was out of some sort of desperation. I needed to create something. I had to latch on to something, and the guitar was what I grabbed.

Guitar Create Desperation Out Some

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

Job Writing Desperation Out Meal

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

Work Memory Actor Desperation Hunger

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

Poetry Writing Chicago Desperation

A lot of people didn't feel attracted to Labour, so they voted in desperation for other things.

People Feel Desperation Things Other

Bill Clinton championed discriminatory laws against formerly incarcerated people that have kept millions of Americans locked in a cycle of poverty and desperation.

Michelle Alexander

People Poverty Desperation Against

Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity.

Hope Burn Solidarity Desperation Out

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

Men Quiet Desperation Resignation

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

Genius Powerful Sometimes Desperation

Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime.

Moment You Crime Desperation Priest

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

Douglas Coupland

Lottery Desperation Tickets

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

Fire Rich Desperation Over Honest

When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't believe in going into overdrive. There's no desperation to be acknowledged as the reason for a film's success.

Success Believe You Need Desperation

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

Always Desperation Werewolves Been

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

Matthew Desmond

Poor Desperation Housing High Cost

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

Work Long Songwriting Desperation

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Charles Spurgeon

Heaven Go Desperation Turn Because

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.

Power Myself Moving Desperation Film

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

Matthew Desmond

People Vulnerability Desperation Well

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 Measure Desperation See

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