Kristaps Porzingis Quotes

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.

We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

My parents did everything possible. My dad has worked from eight in the morning until nine in the evening to make it possible so I can play tennis. We had to cancel tournaments because we couldn't afford to go there.

I toured a lot in the U.K. and Europe solo for a lack of funds, really. I left people I'd been playing with for years at home, just because I couldn't afford it.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

This is a wonderful year for raw truth. We don't have any money.

There's only so much that you can tighten your belt before you squeeze yourself to death.

We were pretty cash-strapped for all those years when I took over.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I was not somebody who watched a lot of films. We couldn't afford to. We came from struggling family background.

We weren't the most fortunate family growing up.

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

I know what it's like to be a teenager in Orange County. I know what it's like to be a kid in L.A. I know what it's like to not have any money and have your lights turned off. I know what it's like to live in a house with five rooms.

I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

My parents were very strapped for cash when we were growing up.

There were times when we couldn't even go to the movies, when I was a kid, because there wasn't enough money.

I saw certain things that I think maybe other kids are protected from. Like, I saw my parents struggling. I knew that we were cutting out coupons and buying dented cans because they were cheaper. And all our furniture was from the garbage. It was just - and to me because I was a kid, all that stuff was really exciting.

Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.