Diane von Furstenberg Quotes

As much as 'It Chapter One' is a movie about friendship and the power of unified belief, the second part is more about trauma.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.

I'm someone who lived in a war for five years. I received bombs on my head every day of my childhood. Did that stop me from living? Did that stop me from laughing?

You don't have to be a scared person. I've had so many tragedies. I've managed to withstand things that you may think you cannot tolerate. But I have the strength.

If I had to say something to Americans, being afraid and having fear, it's okay to be fearful because that will make you strong; being afraid will shut you down.

I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

I've been through a lot, and I've been called a lot of names.

My first match was against Sputnik Monroe at the Amarillo Sports Arena. It was scheduled for only ten minutes. Sputnik got me down and was on top of me for the first eight minutes. My father came running down to the ring and yelled for me to get up. I don't know how I got up but I did. I was a lot more scared of my father than I was Sputnik.

Injuries make you stronger.

My childhood was so traumatic.

As a child, I was afraid of everything. My parents were shy, the kind of people for whom it is an ordeal to go and buy some bread or whatever.

When bombing is going on, you see a lot of people screaming around you and you can't do anything if you're small. You just want to break out of that and be strong.

My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've always had to do to survive.

I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time.

Why would I fear Golovkin when I have stared death in the face?

I have been through so much.

When you're the good guy in a horror film, you're usually suffering a lot throughout the entire thing.

I had paralyzing fear as a kid. I couldn't watch horror movies, nothing. The funny thing is I got so sick of being afraid that I started doing it deliberately and instead of being afraid in my bed I would sit up on my bed and say, 'ok, come on, show yourself, do it.'

My biggest fear as a fighter is to be knocked out in front of millions of people. But after it actually happened, there's this calmness about you that says everything is OK.

David Lynch's 'Fire Walk With Me' has a scene in it that scared me so bad that I don't remember it. I blocked the memory out - repeatedly! I've seen the film two or three times, and I can never remember what it is that scares me.

When you are being bullied a long way from home, when you face that challenge, that is where you find out a lot about yourself.

I feel like after my incident, it really made me realize football is not here forever. I'm all the more anxious to come out here and let my teammates know, 'Look, hey, this is the same JPP. Missing fingers aren't going to stop me from playing some ball.'

I started wrestling when I was five. I lost my first match and cried in front of my dad, and I never wanted to do that again.

Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium.