Internal Struggle Quotes

• Well, I think certain roles are chosen for us. The moment I read Pete Campbell I thought: I can do this, this is mine. And in Money, too. The truth is I turn down a lot of projects. If a character doesn't have some kind of internal struggle, it's no good for me.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Struggle, Character, Thinking

  "Vincent Kartheiser: 'I definitely do psychopathic. I don't try to, but it just sneaks out'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

  Marvin Olasky

  Love, Peace, Struggle

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• We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.

  El-P

  Cancer, Struggle, Fighting

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• Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me.

  H. G. Wells

  Struggle, Agony, Law

  H. G. Wells (2012). “The Island of Dr. Moreau”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• And I could see his internal struggle become an all out war. "It wouldn't have made a difference. Not with Adrian involved," he said..... "I meant it. I won't be that guy Rose. I won't be that man that takes someone else's girlfriend.

  Richelle Mead

  Girlfriend, War, Struggle

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• A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Struggle, Character, Interesting

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• Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Plato, Philosophy

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• I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

  Corey Smith

  Song, Struggle, Writing

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